Tag: Eurovision songfestival

  • E.U. avant la lettre

    E.U. avant la lettre

    Long before (almost) all the European countries united in the European Community, now known as European Union (E.U.), the Europeans had this one yearly event that united them more then ever. The Eurovision song contest. It all began at the beginning of international broadcasting, (1956) which nowadays seems as natural as rain that falls. In…

  • What is Eurovision?

    Checking my Twitter account yesterday I realised I had missed it, the Eurovision Song contest. I received numerous tweets from different papers and tv stations, the most interesting was probably the one on CNNI : “What is Eurovision?”. This struck me as a surprise, as it seems unreal to me that some people don’t really…