🇹🇷 We could eat the pie, no matter what they say

‘Plucky Little Belgium’ in 1914…

Qatar’s broadcaster is in Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union not EBU, and it’s too far south in Mid East to be part of European Broadcasting Area, before anyone starts speculating on that one post-World Cup.

Tho hard to imagine 🇶🇦 wouldn’t be up for massive mega-event without 🏳️‍🌈 stuff were that on offer

But they still can’t be in the same contest because a critically important number of competing countries wouldn’t be able to broadcast content from 🇮🇱 and/or show the 🏳️‍🌈 representation audiences are used to from Eurovision itself.

🇮🇪’s RTÉ reports the voting changes saying it has ‘already set out its position in September’ that it won’t participate if 🇮🇱 does in 2026: www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Also quotes RTÉ spokesperson saying ‘clearly events in Middle East are changing day by day’.

Still unconvinced, or wriggle room?

Still not clear:

❓What will EBU *do* if 3rd party launches major ad campaign for an entry
❓What does stronger enforcement of rules to prevent misuse of contest through lyrics/staging mean for artists’ creative freedom
❓Why allowing users to vote with multiple payment methods in first place is fair

Event director Martin Green has also written letter re the reforms: eurovision.tv/story/open-l...

‘Above all I hope it allows for the Contest to acknowledge the sometimes-difficult world in which we live but resist attempts to turn our stage into a place of geopolitical division’

Yes, but *how*?

This is what we have to see every day, while struggling for employment, healthcare, housing and being treated like human beings