Austria in the Eurovision Choir of the Year edition in Riga, Latvia on 22 July 2017. The contests are broadcast online worldwide through the official Eurovision Choir of the Year website eurovisionchoir.tv and YouTube. The Austrian broadcaster, ORF, will send their own commentator to each contest in order to provide commentary in the German language. Austria in the Eurovision Choir of the Year The participation of Austria in the Eurovision Choir of the Year will begin in Riga, Latvia, at the Eurovision Choir of the Year 2017. Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) a member organisation of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) are responsible for the selection process of their participants,
Austria–Hungary relations relinquish this city, so the Allied powers ordered a referendum, which the Hungarians won. Although many Austrians considered the polls to be irregular, the decision was treated as definitive. The area called Burgenland by the Austrians was handed over to Austria in the autumn of 1921. Even today, Hungarian may be used as an official language in some communities of Burgenland. Hungarian aristocrats like the Esterházys and Batthyanys kept their vast estates in Austria, even after their Hungarian estates were expropriated in 1945. Political development of Hungary and Czechoslovakia towards communist regimes after 1945 made Austrian politicians extremely cautious in