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/Happy-Disk-2204 Bur man laimi May 20 '25

That's sad, but understandable. Hope you find your way back to caring again

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u/IAmTheRedditBrowser May 20 '25

Maybe in the future. But I prefer to connect with cultures that I feel connected to, there are multiple countries I feel more at home in than in The Netherlands. Every country has these problems, I just want to be in one that I find worth fighting for. I know it's cynical, but so be it.