For Croatia, this is a phenomenal thing because it is a unique case where HRT could not escape its shameful handling of an important task for a public service. Instead of nurturing Croatian pop culture, listening to trends, and positioning interesting musicians, they serve us covers of 40-year-old classics on the A-side under the guise of high culture, countless karaoke shows where we pay for incapable authors to profit from new talents, and this pitiful Dora that is a mockery compared to anything in the region - both in terms of content and transparency.
Did you know that television stations in Europe generally disclose the costs of the Eurovision Song Contest as part of their official duty, while HRT becomes Fort Knox at the mere mention of any inquiry?" he says, adding that he knows what he's talking about because he has asked those questions himself.