[Nicky91]

https://eurovoix.com/2021/05/20/pari...rovision-2021/

basically the main rules of Junior Eurovision are

- at least 80% of your entry must be in own language, rest of which can be in either english or another language of the artists choice

- two sets of voting, a jury voting of half of which are adult jurors and other half are child jurors, and televoting unlike adult esc, here people can vote for their own country

- just one grand final show, and usually on a sunday afternoon, near begin of the evening so let's say from 16:00 - 18:30 (UK time that would be 15:00 - 17:30)

- winning country does not necessarily have to host it the next year, but recent years this has been the case of the winning country hosting, this will be asked by EBU some time after the final



https://eurovoix.com/2021/05/21/%F0%...or-eurovision/

EBU working to get UK back into JESC


so far confirmed countries

Albania
Armenia
Azerbaijan (Sona Azizova)
Bulgaria
France (hosts)
Georgia
Germany
Ireland (returning after last years withdrawal)
Italy
Kazakhstan
Malta
Netherlands
North Macedonia
Poland
Portugal (returning after last years withdrawal) Simao Oliveira
Russia
Serbia
Spain
Ukraine

what we know about other countries so far

Albania: they will make a decision on participation next month

Armenia: Martin Osterdahl executive supervisor hopes to see them back and the armenian HoD said regarding all esc events to hope to return as soon as possible + dropped this on insta account yesterday

Australia: SBS said no but their other broadcaster ABC expressed their intention to return

Belgium: flemish broadcaster said no, but wallonian broadcaster hasn't commented yet on participation

Italy: their HoD said they have intentions on returning to the contest but they for now have main focus on ESC2021

Kazakhstan: highly likely they are in but a final decision will be made at a later date supposing they are once again invited to take part by EBU

Slovakia: they had ''not closed the door on JESC2021'' what the RTVS broadcaster stated, could maybe make their debut