The Selection Committee, which is responsible for the selection of the Dutch participation in Eurovision 2025, has already started to evaluate the candidate songs that have been submitted to it until today.
After the official confirmation of the Netherlands’ participation in this year’s Eurovision contest in Basel, as well as Joost Klein’s negative response to rumors that he wanted to consider his participation in Eurovision 2025, the Dutch have already started peaparations for this year’s competition, with the Dutch Selection Committee already evaluating the first candidate songs that have already been submitted to the Committee.
In particular, the six-member committee of the AVROTROS broadcaster, which is responsible for the selection of this year’s representative of the Netherlands in the competition, had their first official meeting of the season on Friday , October 25th, in order to begin the evaluation of the entries that have been submitted by the candidates artists.
Of course, the artists wishing to represent the Netherlands in this year’s Eurovision contest still have the right to submit their piece to the Dutch Commission, as entries will remain open until November 22nd, 2024 . After the overall evaluation of this year’s submissions, the Committee will invite a number of artists, in order to present their entries live, so as for the final decision on this year’s representative of the country in the Competition Eurovision to be made.
The members of this year’s Committee
The six members that make up this year’s Selection Committee are the following:
- Jacqueline Govaert
- Jaap Reesema
- Caroline Borgers
- Hila Noorzai
- Cornald Maas
- Sander Lantinga
It was also announced that the new head of the Dutch delegation for the Competition, Claudia van der Pas , will also participate in the Committee meetings, but will not have the right to vote in determining this year’s Dutch participation.
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Source: Songfestival Weblog
Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest…
- Participating broadcaster: AVROTROS
- Participations: 64 (53 finals)
- Debut: 1956 (1) / (2)
- Highest placement: 1st (1957, 1959, 1969, 1975, 2019)
- Lowest placement: 21st in the Semi Final (2007)
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