{"id":349341,"date":"2025-08-16T14:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349341\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T14:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:24:14","slug":"%f0%9f%87%b7%f0%9f%87%b8-serbia-rts-will-not-participate-in-junior-eurovision-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349341\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf8 Serbia: RTS Will Not Participate in Junior Eurovision 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Serbian broadcaster RTS has confirmed it will not participate at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Tbilisi.<\/p>\n<p>Serbia has withdrawn from competing in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest for the third year in a row. Sandra Perovi\u0107, Entertainment Editor for RTS, confirmed that Serbia withdrew again for economic reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Serbia last participated in Junior Eurovision in 2022. Katarina Savi\u0107 finished 13th in Yerevan with \u201cSvet bez granica\u201d, scoring 92 points.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Eurovision 2025<\/p>\n<p>Junior Eurovision 2025 will be held on December 13 in Tbilisi after Andria Putkaradze gave Georgia their record-breaking fourth victory with \u201cTo My Mom\u201d. The contest will be held at the Olympic Palace, which previously hosted the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>A number of countries have either confirmed their participation in Junior Eurovision 2025 or signaled their intention to compete. These countries are:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurovoix.com\/2024\/12\/11\/estonia-will-not-compete-at-junior-eurovision-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Estonia<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eurovoix.com\/2025\/03\/07\/germany-withdraws-from-junior-eurovision-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Germany<\/a>\u00a0have both withdrawn from the competition. The following broadcasters have confirmed they have no plans to return:<\/p>\n<p>Image source: Corinne Cumming\/EBU | Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evropesma.org\/2025\/08\/finansije-jace-od-muzike-srbija-ni-2025-nece-ucestvovati-na-decjoj-pesmi-evrovizije\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMMhmNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFINmtFNzcxS0pWeWtEUFNnAR6kj0MESXTHCwPKumJcBSYuKVprszTGwRQm6u0s3LOklppzJ4rLutFWGylaqQ_aem_9OqMpsm9GHMf_Op09Bx6Hg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OGAE Serbia<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Serbia made its debut in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest as an independent country in 2006. Their best result is third place, which they achieved in 2007 with \u201cPi\u0161i mi\u201d by Nevena Bo\u017eovi\u0107 and in 2010 with \u201c\u010carobna no\u0107\u201d by Sonja \u0160kori\u0107. Serbia competed annually until 2010, after which point RTS withdrew from the contest due to financial difficulties. Serbia returned to the contest in 2014 and competed annually until withdrawing in 2023. <\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/avatar_user_45006_1705003182-96x96.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo\" height=\"96\" width=\"96\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<p>Posted by:Davide Conte<\/p>\n<p>News Editor here, polyglot who wants to learn too many languages in real life. Italy based, European raised, currently enjoying Ireland&#8217;s seven victories. My first Eurovision was Tel Aviv 2019, but I managed to become a huge nerd in a very short time. Don&#8217;t ask me what my favourite entry is, I have too many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Serbian broadcaster RTS has confirmed it will not participate at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-349341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115038903647166483","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}