Poland should build on Euro 2012 and make a joint bid to host the World Cup with the Czech Republic or Germany, Pawel Adamowicz, mayor of one of the European Championship's venue cities Gdansk, was quoted.
Stadia for Euro 2012 football championship in Poland and Ukraine.
Workers abseil as they attach a huge placard displaying the Euro 2012 trophy as they decorate a building near the Olympic stadium in central Kiev June 6, 2012.
A worker makes the final touches on flags at the city stadium in Wroclaw, June 7, 2012, on the eve of the Euro 2012 soccer match between Russia and Czech Republic.
Girls dressed in colours of the Ukrainian national flag perform during the opening ceremony of the Euro 2012 fan zone in Kharkiv, some 480 km (300 miles) east of Kiev, June 7, 2012.
Exactly one week before Euro 2012 kicks off, tournament co-host Poland is gearing up to welcome almost one million foreign soccer fans within its borders.
Tours to Chernobyl, scene of the world's worst nuclear accident, are popular with tourists visiting the Ukraine, but an even bigger attraction.
Five years ago when Ukraine, along with Poland, clinched the right to host the Euro 2012 soccer tournament, not so many expected that the two neighbors would pull it off.
The Spanish soccer team has chosen Gniewino as their hub for the Euro 2012 soccer championships.
As the clock ticks down to Euro 2012, the buzz is building in host nations Poland and Ukraine, though a section of the population of both countries seems immune to football frenzy.
Soccer-mad Chinese welcome
Most toilets in Polish cities hosting this year's European Football Championship are in good condition but too scarce and hard to find, the organisers of this year's Toilet 2012 campaign reported on Wednesday