is getting closer and closer. Although the competition will not take place until May next year, fans of the show are eagerly awaiting the latest information on this subject. Poles can sit back in their seats with satisfaction, because Telewizja Polska has just officially confirmed its participation in next year’s competition. If nothing unexpected happens, our team will definitely go there.
Eurovision 2024. Poland will perform in Malmo
As every year, approximately 40 countries will take part in the competition. It is already known that one of them will definitely be Poland, which TVP confirmed in an interview with the Eurovision portal ESCToday. However, the method of selecting our candidate has not yet been announced – after this year’s confusion over Blanka’s choice, this topic will undoubtedly come back. Perhaps Polish Television is planning, following the example of some other countries, to completely abandon public pre-selections, where viewers co-decided with the jurors about the competition representation.
Who will perform apart from Poland? In addition to the obligatory “big five” countries (Italy, Germany, France, Great Britain, Spain) and the previous winner (Sweden), several dozen countries that took part in Eurovision 2023 have confirmed their participation in Eurovision. Luxembourg and Luxembourg are also returning to the competition after a 30-year absence. – most likely – Montenegro and North Macedonia. The latter two countries did not take part in Eurovision in Liverpool, but they plan to go to Malmo.
Eurovision 2024 without Russia and Belarus
Nothing has changed in this respect. Russia and Belarus have been removed (Belarus) and suspended (Russia) from the European Broadcasting Union and there is no doubt that they will not send their teams to Sweden. The topic of their return to Eurovision does not exist in official public discussion. However, there are precedents. Already 11 years after World War II, Germany (FRG) performed in the first Eurovision Song Contest. In the 1990s, the former Yugoslavia faced its own sanctions, not only politically, but also in the Eurovision Song Contest itself. These were managed to be “bypassed” after the division into individual countries, when they themselves began to apply for participation in the competition.
Meanwhile, on internet forums, Eurovision fans are speculating when Belarus and Russia could return to perform on the Eurovision stage. For Belarus, they see hope in the fall of Lukashenko’s rule and the change of power. However, there is no good news for Russia. The prevailing opinion is that the country should never return to Eurovision because it has violated all the values represented by the competition.
Source: Gazeta
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