With the official announcement by the EBU of Luxembourg’s return to the contest, the country’s Prime Minister and Minister for Communications and Media, Xavier Bettel, has talked about the Grand-Duchy’s ambitions ahead of the preparations for the contest. Talking to RTL, the Prime Minister has spoken about the objectives of the country in the contest and explained the reasoning behind the …

Singer and musical theater performer Racheli Haim is known to the Eurovision community as a member of the band Shiru, who represented Israel in the contest in 1993. She passed away last week at 66 after battling Alzheimer’s disease. Eurovision 1978 winner, Izhar Cohen, paid tribute at her memorial: “Racheli Haim, my dear, is gone. When I was Aladin, she …