How much Eurovision organisation costs, for most countries it would be unaffordable

With the number of participants increasing over the years, there has been an increase in teams to overshadow past years, with better and more expensive arrangements.

In the past two decades, thanks to technological advancement, scenes have become more demanding and more expensive.

To date, Azerbejdjan has spent the most money on the organisation of Eurovision in 2012 a total of 60m euros. Not counting here on the building of the “Palmaque” arena, for which 100m euros were earmarked.

Denmark spent 45m euros organising the conflict in Copenhagen in 2014, and more than 30m euros were spent from Russia in 2009, Vienna in 2015 and Kiev in 2017.

Meanwhile, the cheapest edition in the last 15 years was that of 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, costing 14m euros. Finland had also not spent much in 2007 on hosting the competition, at 18m euros.

Three years earlier, the Netherlands had spent less than it had planned. Instead of the planned 22.7m euros, it spent only 19m euros.

The year - long edition in Italy, where finals are being held tonight, money is spent from 13.5 million to 40 million euros. Final balance will be known only after the competition ends.