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Countries using their national language for Eurovision 2025 (i.postimg.cc)

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Using English despite it not being their national language: Austria, Azerbaijan. Belgium, Slovenia, Norway, Denmark, Croatia, Czechia

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I thought using your national language was one of the rules these days?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest#History

From 1999 onwards, a free choice of language was again allowed. Since then, several countries have chosen songs that mixed languages, often English and their national language.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks. Didn't realise they rolled back that rule

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Not for a very long time, I don't think.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

We'd've missed the minority languages that pop up from time to time if it was still that rule.

The Bretton song from France in 2023 (iirc) was a banger.