A total of 37 countries will participate in 2023 of the Eurovision Song Contest, organized by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and to be held in 2023. Between 9-13 May in Liverpool.
As announced today by the organization of the competition, there will be countries (in alphabetical order) participating. Albania, Germany, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Cyprus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Slovenia, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta , Moldova, Norway and the Netherlands.
complete this list Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine (the winner of this year’s competition), in addition to the host country, the United Kingdom, to host this event for the ninth time.
After leaving, the total number of countries is three less than in the Turin 2022 edition. Montenegro, Bulgaria and North Macedonia Because of “high participation costs” According to this week’s report by public media such as RTCG (Montenegro), MRT (North Macedonia) and BNT (Bulgaria), they cannot afford it.
And this year, some countries’ contribution has been revised upwards to make up for Russia’s absence and has been removed from the event two years in a row due to Russia’s activity. conflict with Ukraine.
In this sense, BBC Eurovision director general Martin Green stated that they are “proud” to organize the Eurovision Song Contest “on behalf of Ukraine” and that the BBC It is “committed” to making the event a “true reflection of Ukrainian culture” and showcasing British creativity to a global audience.
“Next year’s competition looks like it will be very special and we are currently working with the BBC to ensure that hundreds of millions of viewers have the best fun. Eurovision Song Contest Eurovision’s managing director, Martin Österdahl, said in a statement that so far Ukraine has been at the center of the event.
As for Spain, the public will choose their new nominee through Benidorm Fest, as they did at Chanel last year, and “slow motion16 participants who will compete to represent the country at Eurovision will meet next Thursday with a special program that will be broadcast by TVE at night.