With 43 countries in the Eurovision-This officially and Greece

The EBU announced a while ago, the countries that have already signed up for the 62nd Eurovision Song Contest next …
May in Kiev, Ukraine.As informs the Greek association organized friends of the institution INFE GREECE. the number of countries that will take part ties the record for participants, which occurred two times in the past and in particular in 2008 and 2011, reaching the 43. Australia will make its 3rd appearance in the competition, while returning to Portugal, this year abstained, and Romania, which was eliminated from the contest a few days before the start of the, due to excessive debts of the public television of the country to the EBU. Of the countries that appeared in Stockholm, the only one who will be absent will be the Bosnia-Herzegovina due to financial difficulties facing the broadcasting. San Marino, despite what has been said, and despite the strong reaction to the way voting was implemented this year, in his case, has, like Russia, in spite of the many internal voices that argue a ευρωαπουσία in Ukraine because of the tense relations of the two countries. Denmark and Austria will celebrate the 60 years of 1 the participation of 1957. It should be noted that the 62ος Eurovision song contest will take place at the International Exhibition Center of Kiev on 9, 11 and 13 May.
The supervisor of the contest on behalf of the EBU, Jon Ola Sand stressed that this is the maximum number of countries allowed to take part so that there is no programming problem, while, for the time being, ruled out involvement of an entity which does not fall within the european broadcasting zone (other than Australia).
The list of 43 countries will compete in Kiev is:
San Marino
Azerbaijan
Albania
Armenia
Austria
Australia
Belgium
Bulgaria
France
Germany
Georgia
Denmark
Switzerland
Greece
Estonia
United Kingdom
Ireland
Iceland
Spain
Israel
Italy
Croatia
Cyprus
Latvia
Belarus
Lithuania
Malta
Montenegro
Moldova
Norway
Netherlands
Hungary
Ukraine
Poland
Portugal
E.C.D.M.
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Slovenia
Sweden
Czech republic
Finland