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It should start on June 11th - one year after the originally planned start.
Karl Lauterbach, the health expert of the SPD, does not expect the coronavirus pandemic, but rather a failure of the European football championship.
"I believe that the EM will be canceled completely because we will have a situation in March that will be worse in many European countries than it is today," said the 57-year-old at "t-online".
“Everything will - unfortunately - work out by itself.
We could experience a situation in March in which hardly anyone would even think of hosting a European Football Championship. "
Uefa wants to make binding regulations on March 5th
The European association Uefa is planning for the EM, which should run until July 11, with four different corona scenarios for their twelve venues.
These range from games in full stadiums to a complete exclusion of spectators.
On March 5, a binding regulation is to be made as to how many spectators at the venues can enter the individual EM stadiums.
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"We cannot assume in Europe that we will have enough vaccine by the middle of the year," said Lauterbach.
It is "most likely" that there will be no spectators in the stadiums should the tournament take place.
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Aleksander Ceferin, Uefa President, hopes that vaccination programs, which move at different speeds in the various host countries, will be the key to sticking to the original plan.
"The vaccination has started and I think we will be able to have full stadiums in the summer," Ceferin recently told the Serbian newspaper Informer.
“We are currently planning to play in all twelve countries.
Of course there are back-up options in case a country has a problem. "
There is talk of plans at Uefa, according to which the games could take place in all twelve countries, but only in eleven, ten, nine or even fewer - if necessary, even in one country.
We are currently working on four operating scenarios - for full stadiums, for a capacity of 50 to 100 percent, 20 to 30 percent and for games without spectators.
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Christian Seifert, head of the German Football League (DFL), is of the opinion that the EM can be held safely even under corona conditions.
"I am of the opinion that the European Championship can work," said Seifert of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung".
But Seifert has doubts whether the tournament should be held in twelve cities as planned.
Christian Seifert is the head of the German Football League
Source: pa / dpa / Arne Dedert
He could imagine “that the organizers could refrain from playing these European Championships in too many cities.
Travel activities are risks that you do not have to take unnecessarily, ”said the 51-year-old.
"And it is no longer about making political statements or just asking which cities will be served and which will not."
Basically, the DFL boss does not see the EM in the Corona crisis in danger.
"You have the experience from the national leagues, the experience from the final tournaments of the Champions League and the Europa League, countries come together whose associations usually have sufficient financial resources to create and implement comprehensive hygiene concepts," explained Seifert .
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