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Austria and the Netherlands announced Wednesday they would not send government ministers to the Euro 2012 soccer tournament because of the way that co-host nation Ukraine has treated imprisoned former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, The (London) Times reported. So far, however, none of the European soccer federations involved in the tournament have boycotted the event and UEFA chief Michel Platini said in an interview last week that the European Championships would continue on as planned. Austria's Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger said Wednesday that Vienna wanted to send a political signal to Kiev, while the Netherlands said no government official or member of the royal family would attend unless Ukraine improved its treatment of Tymoshenko. Tymoshenko, whose tax-evasion trial was adjourned on health grounds Saturday until May 21, is on a hunger strike to protest an alleged beating at the hands of three prison guards. The 2004 orange revolution figure re

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS (BNO NEWS) -- Dutch government officials and the royal family will not attend football matches in Ukraine during Euro 2012 if the conditions of imprisoned opposition leader and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko do not improve immediately, the country's foreign minister said on Tuesday. Ukraine and Poland will co-host the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship in June, but the international community has slammed the Ukrainian government for the imprisonment and alleged physical abuse of Tymoshenko, who was sentenced to seven years in prison last year for alleged abuse of power. "Ukraine should now understand what it has to do. The treatment and trial of Tymoshenko has to meet international standards," said Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal on Tuesday. He said the Dutch cabinet sees it as a duty for the Ukrainian government to improve its human rights situation, especially as it will host Euro 2012 and chair the Organizatio

Calls are growing from German politicians and others to relocate the European Football Championship from Ukraine to neighbouring countries, following the country's alleged treatment of its former leader. There’s still enough time to relocate the competition to Germany from the heavily criticized Ukraine if organizers act now, the head of a German police union said Tuesday. There has been no official suggestion from any of the organizers to relocate the competition, which begins in June and is to be held in Poland and the Ukraine. But on Tuesday Patrick Döring, the general secretary of the Free Democratic Party, the junior coalition partner, called for a quick review of whether Poland could host all of the competition's games. "Should there be an alternative in Poland to having the games be located in the Ukraine, then we need to seriously and quickly check that out," Döring told the Bild am Feiertag special holiday edition of the newspaper. S

Euro 2012 is facing a potential diplomatic crisis because of the continued jailing of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko by the government of Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovich . Tymoshenko is serving a seven year prison term handed down last October for what most observers believe are trumped-up charges. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said April 29 that she and her cabinet would not be attending any matches in Ukraine . Euro 2012 is co-hosted by Poland, and there are no concerns with that country's political climate with regard to hosting the tournament. The next day, it was announced that Jose Manuel Barroso , president of the European commission, and the commissioner for justice, Viviane Reding , would not be traveling to Ukraine. There were other politically motivated cancellations of travel plans, and likely more to come. Politics and Sport The fiasco looks like it could deepen, and it draws into question the mixing of politics and sport. The