JEFF CHU
When Estonia won last year’s Eurovision Song Contest, its citizens poured onto the streets to celebrate. It was as if they had won the World Cup or even a war. Said then Prime Minister Mart Laar: “We are no longer knocking at Europe’s door. We are walking through it, singing.”
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