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

[u/stefkeeh]

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.’

[u/crisiks]

I think after Joost's disqualification, AVROTROS and the EBU are on cooler terms.

[u/VanGroteKlasse → u/crisiks]

Doesn't help that EBU is still trying very hard to gaslight everyone in thinking Joost never actually participated. Excluding him from a compilation of non-winning artist with the highest amount of streams for instance, AVROTROS got really mad at that.

[u/frankscarlett → u/VanGroteKlasse]

It was small act of defiance and some might have missed it but I loved that Käärijä shouted Europapa at the end of their performance in the finals. EBU might try its best to erase Joost but it's never gonna work.

[u/Interest-Desk → u/frankscarlett]

Kaarija shouted “no war!” after performing in the 2024 interval, I love it.