In September 2009 the EBU's director Bjørn Erichsen stated during an EBU press conference that "Austria will be back", and that the EBU "has reasons to believe that Luxembourg and Monaco" were also to participate and that "now we are only missing Italy".
Eurovision tv-direktør Bjørn Erichsen udtrykte under et EBU pressekonference, at "Østrig vil være tilbage", og at EBU "har grund til at tro, Luxembourg og Liechtenstein" også vil deltage, og "nu mangler vi kun Italien".