Romanian national selection - A withdrawal and a disqualification

TVR, the Romanian broadcaster has decided earlier today to disqualify the song Your love by the girl band Paradise while the song Vorbe care dor performed by 3 Sud Est has been withdrawn by the artists.

The two songs were replaced by:

La storia della pioggia - Inesa

Run Away - Catalin Josan

Catalin Josan has now two songs in semifinals : Run Away and When We're Together

Eurovision 2008 - The draw for the two semi finals

eurovision.tv reports:

The Draw deciding in which of the two Semi-Finals the participating countries of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest are going to perform will be held in Belgrade on Monday, 28th of January.

The show, hosted by Serbian broadcaster RTS, starts at 13:00 CET and will be streamed live through Eurovision.tv's esctv.

The 38 countries represented in the Semi-Finals will be drawn from six pots, based on voting patterns between 2004 and 2007. Half of the countries in the six pots will be drawn into the first Semi-Final (on the 20th of May), the other half into the second Semi-Final (on the 22nd of May).

More informations here