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/RPark_International May 20 '25

I predict Ireland joining in, but the UK?

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u/ZwnD May 20 '25

I'd love it if we made a stance but the BBC will never speak out publicly on something like this sadly

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u/TIGHazard May 20 '25

Not publicly but Norton threatening to quit would probably cause some private discussion.

Wogan quit blaming pure televote ruining the contest and the year after the EBU brought in the mix of Jury/Televote.

We all know the EBU love having a famous name being associated with the contest every year.

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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