Switzerland’s 2026 entry is Veronica Fusaro with ‘Alice’, internally selected by SRG SSR and released on 11 March. After Nemo’s win in 2024 and Zoë Më’s jury-heavy but televote-barren 2025 result, Switzerland now feels like a country that has woken up to what Eurovision is these days. That said, ‘Alice’ is not a safe bit of beige filler, and doesn’t take any easy route. It’s a slightly odd, slightly cool, very deliberate choice.
The song itself is a piece of alternative pop, reworked from Fusaro’s 2025 album Looking For Connection in collaboration with British producer Charlie McClean. Unlike so many songs this year it isn’t from a songwriting camp assembled in a conference room with a deadline and a fruit platter. It’s restrained, off-centre and modern in a way Eurovision often claims to want and only occasionally gets. There’s no lumbering key change, no panic-stricken attempt to force a climax, and no obvious pandering. The flipside is that it may strike some viewers as cool to the point of distance.
Fusaro is an established singer-songwriter with a clear sound of her own, and gets to perform in the first half of the second semi-final, where an entry this carefully understated may need to work a little harder than the louder, brasher things around it. Still, there’s a quiet confidence in sending something so unconcerned with obvious Eurovision tricks.
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Recent Swiss form gives this extra interest. Nemo won the whole shebang in 2024, then Zoë Më finished 10th in 2025 with 214 jury points and 0 from the public, a split result dramatic enough to raise a few eyebrows even by Eurovision standards.
As for its chances, this also feels like a strong jury prospect and a much shakier televote one. It’s well performed, musically interesting, and sounds like it was written somewhere in the past two years – which is sadly a rare thing these days at Eurovision. But it’s also a song that asks for attention rather than demanding it. Switzerland could absolutely do very well with this, particularly if the staging sharpens the mood without overcomplicating it. Just do not be entirely surprised if it ends up admired more than embraced.
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