This year, Australia was invited to join the competition by the EBU and the Austrian broadcaster ORF as a way to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Eurovision Song Contest.
The EBU announced if Australia was the winner, it would not be allowed to host next year’s Eurovision Song Contest since the 2016 edition is set to take place in a European country. Latest rumours pointed at Germany as possible host in case Australia won the competition and this has been now confirmed by Christer Björkman, Swedish head of delegation and member of the Eurovision reference group until 2015.
This revelation has taken place during the broadcasting of the Swedish program “Inför ESC”. During a discussion about the Australian participation, the host Sarah Dawn Finer asked Christer Björkman to clarify the matter of the possible host country in case Australia won the competition. At first, Björkman was reluctant to reveal such an important information but he finally confirmed Germany as the agreed country to host Eurovision 2016.
The last time Germany hosted Eurovision was back in 2011 after the victory of Lena Meyer with the song “Satellite”.
Let’s not vote for Australia!!!
I believe this should not have been announced until after the contest. If I were German I’d vote for Australia. This is unfair.
I will vote for Sweden :p
I agree! This debate is unnecessary now. In the other hand I think that if Australia wins, Australia should organize the contest next year but somewhere in Europe. It’s also weird to see the runner up hosting and have a show with their national flavor if they didn’t win.
Why not for the second place?
LOL people, you are absolutely insane? Let’s not vote for Australia? This is unfair? Go get a life, you pathetic lunatics!
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Just annoyed reading this news! Dont believe in this! This is only rumours! And if so they have to chose LISBOA!
We are prepare for host the contest without having great costs! We have the facilites, the transportation, all together converge to the Meo Arena!!!! Even we have also metro conection from Airport to Meo Arena!!
Lisboa was the European capital that experienced the greatest tourism growth in 2013, registering a 15.3-percent rise in visitor numbers from 2012. And the trend is not set to stop any time soon. Seventeen new hotels are expected to open in the Portuguese capital this year, and many of them are housed inside historic mansions that have been restored to their former splendor.
The EBU team (Sietse Bakker, Jon Ola Sand) must have to think about this and not only just in the money!!!
That’s why Berlin lost chance to host The Greatest hits. It is just prove that Audtralia will win 🙁
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Fingers crossed for Berlin 2016?! #Australia #Eurovision
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Don’t vote for Germany or Australia, that’s unfair!
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Germany? 0.o Should be the UK!
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