LOCATION: Lisbon, Portugal

DATES:
Semi-Final 1: May 8
Semi-Final 2: May 10
Final: May 12

Participants: 43
Ireland (Won in 1970, 1980, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994 & 1996)
Sweden (Won in 1974, 1984, 1991, 1999, 2012 & 2015)
United Kingdom (Won in 1967, 1969, 1976, 1981 & 1997)
France (Won in 1958, 1960, 1962, 1969 & 1977)
Netherlands (Won in 1957, 1959, 1969 & 1975)
Denmark (Won in 1963, 2000 & 2013)
Norway (Won in 1985, 1995 & 2009)
Israel (Won in 1978, 1979 & 1998)
Ukraine (Won in 2004 & 2016)
Austria (Won in 1966 & 2014)
Germany (Won in 1982 & 2010)
Italy (Won in 1964 & 1990)
Switzerland (Won in 1956 & 1988)
Spain (Won in 1968 & 1969)
Portugal (Won in 2017) [HOST]
Azerbaijan (Won in 2011)
Russia (Won in 2008)
Serbia (Won in 2007)
Finland (Won in 2006)
Greece (Won in 2005)
Latvia (Won in 2002)
Estonia (Won in 2001)
Belgium (Won in 1986)
Iceland (2nd in 1999 & 2009)
Malta (2nd in 2002 & 2005)
Bulgaria (2nd in 2017)
Australia (2nd in 2016)
Poland (2nd in 1994)
Romania (3rd in 2005 & 2010)
Moldova (3rd in 2017)
Armenia (4th in 2008 & 2014)
Croatia (4th in 1996 & 1999)
Hungary (4th in 1994)
Cyprus (5th in 1982, 1997 & 2004)
Albania (5th in 2012)
Belarus (6th in 2007)
Lithuania (6th in 2006)
Slovenia (7th in 1995 & 2001)
Georgia (9th in 2010 & 2011)
Macedonia FYR (12th in 2006)
Montenegro (13th in 2015)
San Marino (24th in 2014)
Czech Republic (25th in 2016)

Other eligible countries that are not participating (latest entry in parenthesis)
Bosnia-Herzegovina (2016 -3rd in 2006)
Slovakia (2012 -18th in 1996)
Turkey (2012 -Won in 2002)
Andorra (2009 -Semi-Final 12th in 2007)
Monaco (2006 -Won in 1971)
Luxembourg (1993 -Won in 1961, 1965, 1972, 1973 and 1983)
Morocco (1980 -17th in 1980)
Lebanon (never entered)
Tunisia (never entered)
Vatican City (never entered)
Algeria (never entered)
Jordan (never entered)
Egypt (never entered)
Libya (never entered)

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