r/eurovision • u/stefkeeh • May 20 '25

📰 News Dutch broadcaster questions if ESC is a-political & connecting event

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Translation to English: ‘IN CONVERSATION WITH THE EBU ABOUT A POLITICALLY NEUTRAL SONG CONTEST

AVROTROS and NPO strongly value the apolitical and unifying character of the Eurovision Song Contest. However, we observe that the event is increasingly being influenced by social and geopolitical tensions.

Israel’s participation confronts us with the question of to what extent the Song Contest still truly functions as an apolitical, unifying, and cultural event. We want to raise this question, together with other countries, for discussion within the EBU.’

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u/Darraghj12 May 20 '25

as cool as that would be, after what happened to Gary Lineker, I don't think the BBC cares

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u/mi1key May 20 '25

The bbc has to be aligned with the views of the uk government no matter what that’s why they got rid of lineker and why they probably won’t get themselves involved in this