San Marino – a possible entrant for Eurovision 2008

San Marino is a microstate and is possibly entering the contest for the first time this year.

But this can change for the next several years as the Sammarinese Broadcaster has entered the European Broadcaster Union and they are thinking of entering the contest. They considered joining in 2007, but some of their Italian stakeholders didn’t support the idea. In a year now they seem to have changed their minds and now San Marino is a possible entrant for the Europe’s favourite song contest Eurovision 2008.

San Marino is a small country located near Italy and is known as the oldest republic. Although San Marino is a microstate it won’t be a problem for them to participate in Eurovision 2008. The history shows that there are other microstates that have already won the contest such as Monaco in 1971.

According to the rules San Marino can present the Italian language in Eurovision Contest. Italy has not submitted their intention for participating, so it won’t be a problem for San Marino to have the Italian language as their language.

Being a new participant in the contest and according to the rules San Marino has to start the participation from the semi-final. But would San Marino become a new participant. Up to now we can only wait and see…