Eurovision: Greece Turns Its Back on the Core
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Greece's Eleftheria Eleftheriou performs during the final show of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest at the Baku Crystal Hall in Baku, Sunday, May 27, 2012.
Greece's Eleftheria Eleftheriou performs during the final show of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest at the Baku Crystal Hall in Baku, Sunday, May 27, 2012.
(Wall Street JournalGagging on the austerity medicine spooned out by its euro-zone partners, Greece has hit back where it really hurts — in Eurovision votes. The gloriously kitsch annual European singalong is notorious for politically motivated voting patterns. The Nordic countries always award each other lots of points, for example. The euro-skeptic U.K., meanwhile, tends to struggle for support.
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May 28, 2012
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