I'm not surprised they are. Wondering how many other countries feel the same way.

🇪🇸 RTVE Chair José Pablo López has announced plans to "open a serious debate" regarding a reform of EBU statutes that would bar countries in conflict from Eurovision.

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El cantante Ermal Meta irá a Sanremo con una canción sobre una niña palestina de esperanza y resistencia

Ya estuvo en Eurovisión y ganó Sanremo con una canción contra el terrorismo, esperemos que este año repita

Lo que más temen los israelíes en Eurovisión es que se vea el apoyo a Palestina

Probably not

🇲🇹 Over 150 artists and lobbyists have called on Malta's Culture Minister and PBS CEO to withdraw from Eurovision 2026 if Israel participates.

The protest "Malta: No Music for Genocide" will be held on Saturday outside Malta's parliament and Culture Ministry.

El Viña Rock se desvincula de KKR para recuperar su independencia y salvar al festival en su año más complicado El festival ha sido adquirido por una empresa independiente perteneciente a un promotor histórico del certamen, que anunciará su cartel próximamente

❗ El Viña Rock se desvincula de KKR para recuperar su independencia y salvar al festival en su año más complicado

The rules are there to prevent a mass lawsuit against the EBU I think

Now related to this....why does the accreditation handbook say it can be modified at any point by the EBU?

Pretty much,and the CoC seems like a copy and paste from last year.

These are the same as last year

Yeah,there's no list (I'm guessing it might be posted by the hosts,but idk)

Isn't this...kind of contradictive? Like you say you respect freedom of speech but you're threatening the participants' freedom of speech

There's an accreditation handbook instead app.eventgo.se/api/files/eu...

Currently yes

Twitter is down in my country as well

Could be,cause all of the press conferences since 2016 have been removed

also i found out that pretty much all press conferences from Eurovision have been hidden from the public for some reason

Apparently the EBU back in 2021 put a comment that they weren't going to tolerate comments that weren't about the music yet when she performed again in 2025 that comment was gone

Ok so apparently this happened. 2021 vs 2025. Same performer (Destiny, Malta 2020/2021)

It starts at 10pm CET today btw

Happy birthday!

Mira hoy he roto un paraguas hoy

Encima Joost teniendo un concierto ayer en el Ziggo Dome

I doubt they know. I think they're too naive. They think the brand wouldn't suffer,but it has suffered greatly. I feel like they think that they will be fine with that country's money.

And this coming out the day after Joost's Ziggo Dome concert...

ngl the staging gave me a laugh

I think "unforseen challenges" is short for "no one bought our tickets" at least in this case

Probably it was less than expected. The tour was doomed from the start tbh given the EBU's current reputation