"Euro-ruin"

Estonia, which won on May 12 this year. at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Everybody”, should rightfully host the next international festival of contemporary music. However, there are persistent rumors that a country with a population of 1.4 million people may simply not have enough funds for an event of such magnitude.
Rumors about this spread around the world, and Malta, without wasting any time, declared its desire to become the host of the competition. Malta hurried.
“Despite everything, our country began preparations for Eurovision two days after the victory,” Christel Cafe, press secretary of the Estonian Embassy in Russia, told Interlocutor. — TV people have already held a competition for the best presenters. On December 7, their names became known: 30-year-old opera singer Anneli Piibo and popular Estonian actor 33-year-old Marco Marvere.
The order of performers is already known. Cyprus will perform first, then England and Austria. Estonia will be eighth, right after Russia. The last will be Latvia and Lithuania. The song at the competition must be performed live and last at least three minutes. The maximum number of applicants per country is 6 people, at least 15 years old. The country's recorded songs had to be presented to the jury by December 3, and the results would be summed up on January 26.
To the chagrin of Malta, Estonian TV and Estonian Telecom signed a contract unprecedented in the history of Estonia, according to which ET will invest 8 million Estonian kroons - $500,000 - into the ceremony.
Yulia Vasilyeva.