Eurovision Song Contest Director Comments on Debates Following Eurovision 2025

Several of the conflicts that Eurovision has faced in the last two editions are related to its funding. On the one hand, critics with which Israel participates in the festival while continuing its military intervention in Gaza, accuse the European Broadcasting Union (ERU) of looking the other way by having an Israeli company, Moroccanoil, as the main sponsor. On the other hand, the critical position of RTVE regarding the same issue, the Israeli …

At the last edition there was a lot of commotion about the high number of public votes (297) that Israel received via televoting.

The director of the Grand Concours de musique publishes an open letter in which he defends the controls of the public elections. He states that the organisation will "examine" the principle of 20 votes per person. The Austrian winner JJ, for his part, revives the controversy by pleading for the exclusion of Israel.The European Broadcasting Union (EBU, the parent company of Eurovision) "listens closely the conversations between the members [natio…

Eurovision 2025: The EBU Releases Open Letter From ESC Director

Earlier today, Eurovision Director, Martin Green CBE, released an official statement, which he describes as an open letter to the Eurovision community. The letter aims to address some topics that have been raised recently, including the voting results.National broadcasters, Eurovision fans, and different media channels directed the criticism. First, the EBU has once again officially confirmed that the public voting was valid.The voting includes …

The Eurovision public vote will be scrutinised in June, as it does every year. The scrutiny will be more thorough this year due to demands from several countries for an investigation into the voting. Martin Green, the director of the Eurovision Song Contest, has announced this in an open letter on the Eurovision website. Several countries have requested that the public vote in this year's contest be scrutinised, especially since Israel received …

The Eurovision Festival will study the current policy of allowing twenty televotes per person, as well as the support campaigns of the participants by their delegations, in the face of the controversy sparked this year by the high number of votes received by Israel. Campaigns in principle are allowed, according to the director of the Festival, Martin Green, who in an open letter added: "We want to make sure that they do not disproportionately af…