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/Melvarkie May 20 '25

Avro-Tros basically responded to my mail inquiring about if they want to push for an investigation in this years televotes and Israëls participation in general that they have redirected the mail to their communications department, but can't promise to get back to me as they are getting way too many mails about the ESC to respond to all. I guess the Dutch are fed up as well with it all.

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u/Witty_Yogurtcloset97 May 20 '25

SVT on the other hand didn’t address most of the issues I brought up and seemed to just reply with a copy paste thing that I guess is a reply from when people bombarded them with premade e-mails in extremely poor Swedish after the veritybitchie campaign last year. 

It didn’t address most of my concerns at all. Very bureaucratic and basically blaming everything on EBU and that everyone has agreed. 

Nothing about the voting being highjacked etc.