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Euro 2012 Poland boycotted because of Timoshenko 3.07.2012

The Polish opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski joined the idea of ​​a boycott of the European Championships in Ukraine.

The reason for radical action is unacceptable situation of the former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is in jail and in the past few days led hunger strike. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and other EU leaders in recent days announced their determination not to go to Euro 2012 if no agreement is reached Tymoshenko situation.

However, the Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski define these actions as "inappropriate."

The European Championship will be opened on 8 June in Warsaw, and the final is on July 1 in Kiev.

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