At Home with John and Debbie

It’s a little known fact (although people love to snort about how Israel isn’t in Europe) that the Eurovision Song Contest is not a contest for European countries, but for members of the European Broadcasting Union, which itself admits broadcasters from the Middle East and Northern Africa.

Here are the European countries which have broadcasters in the union, but which do not have entries in this year’s Song Contest:

• Austria
• Italy
• Luxembourg
• Monaco
• Slovakia
• Vatican City

… and more excitingly, here are some eligible non-European countries who don’t take part:

• Algeria
• Egypt
• Jordan
• Lebanon
• Libya
• Morocco
• Tunisia

I long for the day when Libya enters the Eurovision Song Contest.

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