They're not singing any more: Eurovision suffers rash of withdrawals

Financial crisis leads Portugal, Poland, Cyprus and Greece to contemplate life without the continental song contest One after another they are calling in sick. First, Portugal and Poland and now, short of an economic miracle, Cyprus and Greece. For an event that is meant to be one of the most unifying in Europe, next year's Eurovision song contest is starting to look unusually thin on the ground. In quick succession this week, all four countries announced, or intimated strongly, that they would ...