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Italy: the most expected comeback! News Eurovision Song Contest - Düsseldorf 2011 Thirteen contests without Italy "...we are coming back mainly for a reason that might be addressed as “political”: we do strongly believe that the added value of this contest is the moment of “European Awareness” that it develops and, as a public broadcaster, we have to address any possible effort toward this direction. Considering the Eurovision Song Contest merely as a singing contest it’s rather diminishing: it is a great TV show but more importantly is one of the few moments in entertainment, besides sports of course, where 43 countries confront and present themselves at once in the most immediate “universal language” I can think of, music. Italy simply had to be there. "