Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 8 points for their 3rd favourite song. Then 10 and 12 points were given for the second favorite and favorite respectively. But, the difference between this contest and other past contests is this is the first Eurovision Song Contest that implements a jury vote that counts for half of each countries vote. Fifteen countries took part in the 2008 Junior Eurovision Song Contest: Armenia, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Macedonia, Georgia, Greece, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine. , which had taken part twice since 2006 announced that it was no longer interested in the contest and withdrew along
Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 RTCG chose the Montenegrin entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with help from public votes. During a special show that aired on RTCG, called MontenegroSong 2008, with a new National Final model, six candidates were presented, out of which Stefan Filipović was selected via televoting as the entrant. The song which he performed was chosen internally by a 30-member jury appointed by RTCG. The song, "Zauvijek volim te" ("I Love You For Eternity"), was made by a team of Macedonian musicians: Grigor Koprov, Ognen Nedelkovski and Vladimir Dojčinovski, the same trio that