The 95th is celebrated this Thursday and Friday The General Assembly of the European Broadcasting Union takes place at the headquarters of this private entity in Geneva. Today’s most controversial point is clear: Eurovision.
This afternoon, 56 EU member states are expected to vote for the broadcast Whether Israel should be excluded from the festival or notThis is due to the conflict in Gaza.
RTVE, along with public television stations in the Netherlands, Slovenia, Ireland and Iceland, leads the group of those who want to impose sanctions on Israel, not only because of the war, But due to political interference in previous editions of Eurovision, illegal campaigns And even suspicions of buying votes via SMS or tampering with them.
On the other hand, countries such as Germany or Austria, hosts of Eurovision 2026, They are defending Israel’s participation, as has been the case so far, Even with the threat of withdrawal if the Israeli delegation is expelled.
The rift within Eurovision is getting bigger and bigger. This is what he talked about this morning. José Pablo Lopez, President of RTVEHe accused those responsible for the European Broadcasting Union of bringing division to the festival.
“European Union Radio and Television Administration Today, they will subject the organization to the greatest internal tension in its history. “We should never have gotten to this point,” Lopez said.
“the Sanctions should have been imposed on Israel for its repeated non-compliance with Eurovision at the executive level And not to transfer the conflict to the Assembly,” he says, because now they are putting delegations in a voting position, in addition, as the European Union intends, by a show of hands and not secretly, as proposed by the countries supporting the exclusion of Israel.
“Today the European Broadcasting Union It will be a union more conditional on political and commercial interests “A festival they did not know and did not want to run,” José Pablo López concluded his speech on social networks, because the EBU’s efforts to ensure the depoliticization of the festival ended up completely politicizing it and tirelessly linking it to Israel and its military and propaganda activities.