Luxembourg: Potential return in Eurovision 2024 under discussion

Luxembourg: Potential return in Eurovision 2024 under discussion
Thursday, 15 December 2022

  • Discussions in Luxembourg are underway regarding a potential return of the country to Eurovision in 2024. 

    Luxembourg participated last time in Eurovision 1993. Taking into consideration the long time away from the contest,  Luxembourgish Prime Minister Xavier Bettel has taken the initiative, as the Minister for Communications and Media,  to bring the matter of a potential return to Eurovision 2024 for discission at the Council of Luxembourg.

    A team has been formed buy the government to look into a potential Eurovision 2024 comeback while talks have started with RTL, the broadcaster that is a member of EBU. 

    A potential Eurovision return is not a matter discussed in Luxembourg these days but in other countries too such as Moncao who are reconsidering a Eurovision participation once their national broadcaster in launched. 

     

    Luxembourg in Eurovision

    And all this would have been insignificant for a tiny European landlocked country if this country wasn’t one of the founder members of EBU that participated in the very first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956 in Lugano.

    Luxembourg has achieved an admirable total of five victories in the contest (1961,1965,1972,1973, 1983). Some of the most worlwide acclaimed acts have represented the nation, such as Lara Fabian, Ireen Sheer, Baccara, Nana Mouskouri, Vicky Leandros, Anne Marie David, France Gall. Despite its 37 participations, the low placing in the contest and the low TV rating in the country have kept it many years away from the Eurovision Stage.

    Luxembourg was last seen in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1993 in Millstreet when Modern Times represented the country with the song Donnez Moi Une Chance De Te Dire and achieved a 20th placing.

     

    News Source:RTL