Serbia no longer in the mood for the Eurovision

Beatriz Navarro informs us that Serbian public television has decided not to broadcast the song contest due to select the candidates who will defend the Serbian flag in the Eurovision song contest in May. This international competition won in 2007 by the Serbian singer Marija Serifovic will be held in Belgrade this year. "After the painful declaration of the Kosovo's independence, Belgrade is no longer in the mood to organise pro-European festivities ... . This polemic clearly shows that the festival has had increasingly political connotations ever since former Soviet Union countries started to join in. They see the Eurovision contest as an extension of Europe, just as Spain did at the time of Massiel [a Spanish singer who won the Eurovision in 1968]. The map of Europe has changed a lot since then, as has the festival."

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