Currently, the 1,900-kilometer (1,180-mile) trip from Gdansk to Donetsk requires serious stamina.

A lucky driver can do it in 23 hours - not counting the wait at the border - mostly on single-lane roads.

It's worse by train: the trip takes 43 hours, at best.

"The project is the biggest since Ukraine became independent," Ivan Vasyunyk, the country's deputy premier, said in Warsaw.

"Ukraine is perfectly able to perfectly stage the tournament and will have all the infrastructure in place," he said.

"The government of Ukraine does realize what enormous work is required to stage the tournament," he said.

Poland's Sports Minister Adam Giersz said it was time for the debate to move on.

"We're no longer discussing if a stadium will be ready by 2012 or not," he said.

There have been concerns over the arena in the southwestern Polish city of Wroclaw, where the authorities in December voided the contract with a Polish-Greek consortium, citing construction delays, and chose a replacement German firm last month.

"We've had some issues but we've resolved them," Wroclaw's mayor Rafal Dutkiewicz said. "I want to assure you the stadium will be ready on time."

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