The rumours are telling Slovenia is seriously considering its participation in Eurovision 2011 due to financial problems and also country's poor results in the last few years. One solution might be skipping EMA and selecting internally, the other skipping Eurovision 2011 altogether. I hope it's only a rumour as EMA is one of the most entertaining national selections around year after year providing us with such eurokitch and bubblegum pop that it's hard to think it has any life outside Eurovision! And even if the Slovenian entries often have been "the wrong ones" they still have sent some goodies over the years, like Tih deževen dan, their debut in 1993 (22nd), Dan najlepših sanj in 1996 (21st), Zbudi se in 1997 (10th), Energy in 2001 (7th), Samo ljubezen in 2002 (13th) and Mr Nobody in 2006. However in the past seven years Slovenia has reached the final only once, in Helsinki 2007 with Cvet z juga, that came 7th in the semifinal and 15th in the final even if also 2008 they narrowly missed the final when Rebeka Dremelj was 11th in her semifinal.
Also if Slovenia drops out it's bad news for neighbouring Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina as well as Nordic Sweden, Norway and Denmark might suffer as in those five countries their top points have usually went....
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