Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

If anyone should wonder if the juries are really useful, have a look at the Italian televotes below. Diaspora reigns. It's also rather astonishing number of invalid votes, 20,89%! Did Marco Mengoni fans, his #esercito , still try to vote for him after all?! Just in case... Anyways, the jury seems to have liked Norway a lot, Lithuania, Malta, Spain and Denmark, too. Not so impressed with Romania, Russia and Moldova and maybe they both agreed on Greece? Judge yourself: 12 Romania 23,20 (instead they got 1) *unvalid/Italy? 20,89 10 Moldova 13,79 ( instead they got 4) 8 Ukraine 13,23 ( instead they got 5) 7 Greece 11,94 ( instead they got 7) 6 Russia 5,01 (instead they go 0) 5 Denmark 3,20 ( instead they got 12) 4 Malta 3,07 ( instead they got 10) 3 Hungary 2,93 ( instead they got 3) 2 Azerbaijan 2,47 (instead they go 0) 1 Lithuania 2,27 ( instead they got 6) 0 Georgia 1,95 0 Norway 1,77 ( instead they got 8) 0 Netherlands 1,64 ...

Blogilkar's Bicyckling reporter Robert had a chance to interview the essential Italian Marco Mengoni. In his press conference he said Europe needs more to unite it than coins: music. And music needs place to breath: Eurovision. He's also happy Italy has returned to the contest after the absence of 14 years and thinks it's a shame they missed all those years as it's so great! What did he talk about in this joint interview in more private settings? Find out here: Thank you Marco for your time. Italian broadcaster RAI chose you for Eurovision. Was it also your wish beforehand?  It was some years that I heard again about Eurovision since we returned in 2011, and yes of course I wanted to do this fantastic event. It was a dream. But I was feeling a bit inmature for such a big international stage, not knowing languages, being so young.... I'm living a wonderful experience here and I hope this will be a big brick in the wall of my career, so to speak. When and...