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Deutsche Welle: Croatia among favorites

17. May 2008, 15:23

German World service, Deutsche Welle (DW) have conducted their own internal survey, in collaboration with journalists from other media such as WDR and NDR, SRDRS (Swiss radio), as well as major Eurovision websites, and the journalists' favourites are Serbia, Croatia, Ukraine, Belgium and Ireland.

Jelena Tomasevic, the Serbian representantive this year has won the DW survey, receiving points from almost every member of the international jury. "Besides Serbia other favourites in this survey that DW (also a member of EBU) conducted are Croatia, Ukraine, Belgium and Ireland", Nebojsa Jakovljevic, DW Eurovision reporter says.

Other favourites for the Big Final besides those known ones are Portugal, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Russia, Greece, Turkey, Norway, Armenia, Iceland and Moldova.

Nebojsa Jakovljevic, host of some special DW Radio shows, said: "For some reason I believe that this year some faster and more dynamic song will win. But you have to have in mind that more then a half of Eurovision viewers always have two or three favourites every year. So who is going to win their 12 points is decided after the live performance. That counts most. In most of the cases singing and music production are not the crucial arguments. Marija Serifovic won cause of amazingly emotional performance and message she sent. If the Eurovision viewers decide to support „those "funny songs" we have almost every year now, they are going to vote for Belgium or Ireland. Ana Lorak is my favourite, because I would personally vote for the songs that have potential to be great mainstream Hits after the show. On the other hand, Bulgaria is already a hit in US for example and I know some radio stations in France and UK that are having the song „DJ, Take Me Away" on their Playlists".

Source: esctoday.com