The Netherlands will not participate in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest in Bulgaria, the state broadcaster has said, citing divisions over the situation in Gaza. It's the second time the country is boycotting the event.
  • Don Antonio Magino@feddit.nlEnglish
    25·
    28 days ago

    This isn’t correct. The Dutch public broadcasting system consists of several broadcasters under a single public broadcasting organisation (NPO).

    AvroTros isn’t the national public broadcaster (‘omroep’), but just one of them, and what has happened isn’t that the national broadcaster has decided against ESC, what has actually happened is that the broadcaster responsible for ESC in the Netherlands (AvroTros) has given back its responsibility to the NPO. This also doesn’t definitively mean the Netherlands won’t participate, as the NPO can give another broadcaster the responsibility for Dutch ESC participation.

    You can translate this article for a better story.

    • Ibuthyr@feddit.orgEnglish
      6·
      28 days ago

      ESC died for me when Joost Klein got kicked out. He would have definitely won that boring shit show because his song was different, was about his love for Europe, had dutch gabber culture in it, etc.