Poland Prime Minister Donald Tusk accepted Thursday that his country needs to do more to ensure that Poland's preparations for the Euro 2012 tournament remain on track, according to dpa. The admission comes after UEFA boss Michel Platini on Wednesday called on the governments of co-hosts Poland and Ukraine to mobilize after a period of instability in an effort to avoid any critical slippage in sports and public infrastructure projects. "Yes, it's true that we have had to deal with delays that went on for months," Tusk told journalists in Warsaw. "But nothing is lost yet." Tusk said the government intends putting forward a timetable but opposition MP Elzbieta Jakubiak of the Polish Law and Justice Party (PiS) said the government had no coherent organizational concept in place. Host cities were still waiting on cabinet decisions regarding the co-financing of strategic investments, she said, while PL 2012, the company that is supposed to coordinate preparations for Euro 2012, has yet to be set up. Jakubiak also criticised the absence of an agreement with co-host Ukraine. But Sports Minister Miroslaw Drzewiecki dismissed the claims, saying UEFA's criticism referred to the time period between April and November 2007, when the previous administration was responsible for giving projects the go-ahead. "Nothing was done, absolutely nothing," Drzewiecki told Thursday's Dziennik newspaper. Poland and Ukraine surprisingly beat of bids from Italy and Croatia/Hungary last April to win the right to host Euro 2012.
