A recent investigation by the EBU’s independent fact-checking network, Spotlight, has looked into how a government-linked Israeli agency orchestrated a digital ad campaign aimed at increasing votes for Israel’s entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025.
The Israeli artist, Yuval Raphael, ultimately secured second place after amassing 297 points from the public vote — the highest televote score of the evening.
Spotlight was launched by the EBU earlier this year in order to combat misinformation and support trusted news.
Israel used institutional advertising to incentivise voting
According to the findings, the Israeli Government Advertising Agency — responsible for promotional work with public bodies and state-affiliated companies — ran targeted ads via Google platforms in the lead-up to the Eurovision final, held in Basel, Switzerland. These ads guided viewers on how to vote for Raphael’s entry, “New Day Will Rise.”
Additionally, a YouTube channel launched on April 20 uploaded 89 videos between May 6 and 16, aimed at audiences in 35 countries. These videos, which collectively reached over 8.3 million views, featured Raphael herself urging people to vote for her, often speaking in different languages and emphasising her performance numbers: 14 in the semi-final and 04 in the final. The EBU report confirmed that there was no indication of AI usage in these clips, suggesting Raphael’s direct involvement.
On May 6, 16 videos were released targeting specific nations — including 12 countries that competed in Israel’s semi-final (Armenia, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro and Serbia). The day before the final, May 16, the channel uploaded an additional 73 videos calling for support from 35 different countries.
The ads were linked to a verified government account via the Google Ads Transparency Centre, although the YouTube channel itself lacked an official governmental tag.
Spotlight’s investigation notes that other countries also ran advertising campaigns, including Malta, Greece, Albania, Poland, Armenia and France. Some of these were run by the artists themselves via their own social platforms, and some were promoted via the competing broadcaster in the territory — but with no link to their respective governments.
The EBU has repeatedly shut down all calls for Israel to be removed from Eurovision over the country’s actions in Gaza, where more than 52,000 people have been killed since October 2023. They state that the event is a competition between public broadcasters rather than governments, noting the contest must remain apolitical.
However, this government-funded marketing campaign raises questions on that statement.
Israel also performed a campaign in 2024
For many, this is not in fact breaking news. The same targeted campaign was observed last year.
In 2024, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs coordinated an international effort to boost public votes during the Eurovision Song Contest. This was confirmed by David Saranga, then serving as Acting Deputy Director for Public Diplomacy.
Saranga admitted the ministry had reached out to pro-Israel communities abroad as part of a targeted initiative. The campaign, described as “organised and dedicated,” helped Israel’s entry “Hurricane” secure 323 points in the televote — the second-highest of the night — finishing fifth overall.
Speaking to Ynet at the time, the minister confirmed: “It is true that we, as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, acted among friendly audiences to increase voting.”
The effort included a global promotional push for artist Eden Golan, with digital ads on platforms like YouTube and even a billboard placement in New York’s Times Square. Israeli diplomatic missions across Europe were also instructed to help publicise the entry and mobilise support in their respective countries.
EBU’s stance at the moment
As the aftermath of Eurovision 2025 continues to spark debate, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has addressed concerns raised by several national broadcasters, including Spain’s RTVE and Belgium’s VRT.
Martin Green, Director of the Eurovision Song Contest, has spoken out in defence of the contest’s voting procedures, calling them among “the most advanced in the world”.
With the contest in Basel now concluded, Green confirmed that the EBU will initiate a comprehensive review with all participating broadcasters. “We remain in constant contact with our members and take their concerns seriously,” he stated, adding that feedback will be incorporated into the planning for the 70th edition of the event next year.
Green also stressed the robust mechanisms in place to ensure voting transparency and fairness. “Each country’s results are thoroughly checked by a dedicated team, and we work with an independent compliance monitor to detect and prevent any irregularities,” he noted.
The EBU’s official voting partner, Once, has verified that valid public votes were successfully recorded in all participating countries and across the Rest of the World category during the Grand Final.
RTVE and VRT have noted that, whilst they believe this year’s vote count was done correctly, there are concerns over its fairness.
The broadcasters argue that allowing viewers to cast up to 20 votes creates room for coordinated campaigns and political influence, distancing Eurovision from its cultural and artistic focus.
Israel was not the only country invested in PR for their entry. France, Poland and seversl others had done the same. Double Standards has always been key to Anti-Semitism. Europe is back to its ugly days of the 1930s.
Israel is not the first country being pushed by pre-contest campaigning. To me, this reads like „We finally found something to ban them from the contest“.
How about that? Just have no voting at all next year. We could celebrate songs and artists instead – and the uniting spirit of this 70 year old contest.
People can give more than 20 votes you just need multiple credit cards….
Everything is pretty simple. The current system allowing voting 20 times per payment method (so you can vote 40 times if you have a SIM + a credit card) should be changed to allow just one vote. Will it ever happen? No. Why? Because the EBU gets the money from voting. If, as written in the article, many countries ran similar ad campaigns, with the only difference being that the broadcaster financed them – everything is OK. Note that any public broadcaster is financed by the government. In fact, I remember seeing several years ago a targeted ad encouraging me… Read more »
I dont understand why people get the idea that since my country (Spain) granted Its 12 televote points to Israel that means that “Spain”, “Spanish people” or “the majority of Spanish people” supports Israel.
Facts: Spain – 5 million people watched the show. 150k messages were received, since 1 person can vote Up to 20 times, 150k votes might mean 100k people (or Even less).
The only conclusion you can get from these facts is that the majority of the Spanish people did not vote for anyone.
Or only 2% of the people watching the show “supports” Israel.
I don’t get why there is so much hostility to the possibility that a lot of people in Spain liked the Israeli song
Leaving aside the politics the song was sub par. In no way deserving a 2nd place.
I liked the song a lot and the live performance was pretty impressive, don’t you agree?
And you can be sure, if it was representing a country like Belgium or Malta it would have a lot more positive reviews….
But yeah, writing this, I can aleeady see people calling me an Israeli bot or something.
Martin Green saying the voting system is “the most advanced in the world” sounds so like Israel saying their army is the “most moral army in the world’. Votes have been bought. Our Aussie broadcaster SBS WhatsApp group asked people to give their vote, only one vote per person. It rated Israel in last place, no doubt due to the atrocities and lies, while the paid “most advanced in the world” system came up with the lie that Australians gave them first place. Only when everyone campaigns for each of our countries to leave Eurovision will they make changes so… Read more »
For those supporting JJ, I’m happy he won. I wasn’t one of those but I must confess I sighed relief when he was announced. And I reflect on the way this contest went, I didn’t enjoy the voting at all and had no fun poundering a contest where the runner up would win. Ultimately the win of Austria was for me more of a thank god moment than one of celebration, like it has been on other editions where my fav doesn’t win. The fact that this is the curent state of things just really discourages me to even watch… Read more »
So why exactly the EBU has an independent fact-check network if they’ll blatantly ignore any conclusions to their investigations lol
Israel did the same thing last year and nothing happened, it seems that for the EBU their friendship (let’s call it that) with one country is more important than the contest itself, and any sense of fairness in the voting system.
lets face it
the high televote is not the main problem with israel participation
this is distracting from the real problem
The only question is how much direct government involvement as part of a concerted effort to garner support for an entry is acceptable. 8.3 million viewers still don’t explain how nearly 200 million viewers made up their mind the way they did because you can skip ads, ignore them or just let them pass by. Israel didn’t take part in any of the pre-parties. A targeted ad campaign and a successful one for 11 days is quite an achievement. Jurors also boycotted Israel in advance for purely political reasons but you don’t ask to investigate that, do you?
I appreciate good investigative journalism with fect checking and crosschecks so that people can decide for themselves.
All I have to add is that the direct government involvement in funding a Google ad campaign bypassing the state broadcastet raises an eyebrow. I wonder how much KAN was left out of the loop or whether it actually collaborated with this concerted effort without paying a dime on its expense.
Israel didn’t participate in any of the pre-parties so an ad campaign is completely legit. The question is whether this went against the guidelines and the spirit of the contest.
Just a thought: Junior Eurovision has been using online voting (presumably different from televoting) since 2018; and the year before, they used an adult jury, an expert jury and a kids’ jury.
Would the use of online voting (to go with the juries), or the application of two sets of juries (one of experts and one full of nobodies), resolve the situation or exacerbate it?
The thing that really strikes me about the Israeli fans is the inability to reflect on *why* so many people dislike the behaviour of their ESC delegation. When the British or Spanish don’t do well, the first question is “Where did we go wrong here?”. With Israelis the slightest criticism is met with “What’s your problem?” and the circumstances are so much more serious, so much clearer than a kitsch performance or a bad song. All criticism is always someone else’s fault, there’s always some grand conspiracy or jealousy (I’ve seen this written online a lot – I’m sure the… Read more »
And call you an antisemite when you try to point out legitimate problems because they think you’re attacking them because they’re Jewish.
To be honest, “Where did we go wrong here?” is the last thing the UK reflect on. It’s always “Europe hates us” and when you remind them of Sam Ryder doing well, “that was only so the BBC could host it.”
Not this year but I was there for the two ESCs before, including Liverpool. The talk was around “Why this didn’t connect with audiences”. There was very, very little of the “Europe hates us” thing going on (maybe a bit of rabble rousing from the usual suspects). I travel around Europe a lot and I see that sentiment in other places just as much as the UK. Belgium has a bad case of it at the moment. Before last year, Ireland had it a bit too. It’s very easy for bad actors to exploit feeling left out and insensitive ESC… Read more »
Something I don’t understand about this uncovered government-sponsored advertising campaign is: Why do it?
What does that government aim to achieve by winning Eurovision? Is the trophy really that valuable?
Surely it couldn’t be for the rights to host the event, since the ESC would have to approve the location anyhow; and even if it was approved, it still would cost them money to stage a song contest. I really don’t understand the appeal of this for a government, which ultimately has a job to run a country and put first the prosperity, safety and representation of its people.
Look up art-washing and pink-washing. Doing well controls how they’re seen by the world. Other nations (including some leaders) look on and say “Oh the public approve of their actions, look they’ve just won the biggest music contest in the world”. If it were hosted by them it further allows them to present a face to the world that’s distorted.
It’s a PR campaign, simply. They use it to gain symphathy and support and push the public’s opinion into a more positive light.
A theory I heard/read suggests that this is done not to win, but to get as many vote from the public as possible to be like “see how many people support us and the things we do?”
They want people to think they have big support from the general public. The reality though is that is far from true.
What also strikes me is how the ads are phrased. They don’t just ask people to support Eden Golan or Yuval Raphael – They ask to support Israel. Would the ads be as effective if they left out the name and flag of the country, and just told people to support the artist? Why not?
I’ve also seen ads from this year emphasising the fact that Yuval Raphael was an october 7th survivor. Why is that relevant?
Isn’t it obvious? Israel winning Eurovision tightens their relationship with Europe, it proves that despite their horrific actions in Gaza they’re still considered a civilized country that’s well accepted within the western community. So the government of Israel has a LOT to gain by participating and eventually winning Eurovision, for them the contest in nothing but a tool to improve their image.
I don’t see what the problem some Israeli fans have with investigations.
If there was no wrongdoing, then the investigation won’t reveal anything. Simple as that.
Because the investigation clearly stated just that – that Israel actions are legitimate and were done by other countries as well (e.g why didnt you call to launch an investigation on france for doing the exact same thing?). The problem is that being investigated and being guilty of something are described as the same thing
I’m hearing alot about SIM farms what is this ?
Russia bought votes off b4
Public voting in the way it is done now sounds good, but appears too easy to manipulate. Maybe the public vote should be done differently. Why not let a broadcaster form a representative group of that country of say 1000 people, have them watch the other countries’ songs the night before, just like the juries, and have them each give points. That total amount of points would give a more representative idea of support for a song. Which is much harder to manipulate.
We definitely need reform in the televote system.
Advertising cannot be counted as manipulation.
It’s the spirit of the « demoscopic » vote used in some countries national selections… and it didn’t prove very well over the years. It seems pretty easy to manipulate as well.
They CHEATED. Just get them out so we can have a REAL contest.
They did not. There is no rule banning ads and multiple countries have them.
…but not paid by the government.
I spent four euros in votes and I fell like I’ve been scammed
I don’t like Martin Green,
Sick and tired of this crap! Every competing entry has a full right to promote itself and to call for votes. Don’t blame Israel for being organised and loyal to itself. Blame yourselves for being fragmented and squalling losers!
It’s against the rules
It’s literally not. Three is no rule banning ads.
Many countries don’t have the resources to stage their song let alone advertise to such an extent. It may not be against the rules but is it ethical? I think not.
Yeah but not all the countries had goverment founds, or ministries to help them
Good point!
What I found weird about the israeli Youtube ads was that they were shown in the ad topic “drinks”. Is that how topics are supposed to work?
“Spotlight’s investigation notes that other countries also ran advertising campaigns, including Malta, Greece, Albania, Poland, Armenia and France. Some of these were run by the artists themselves via their own social platforms, and some were promoted via the competing broadcaster in the territory.”
Asking for votes through adds, etc., in not something prohibited by the EBU. So why this hypocrisy of pointing the finger to Israel only?
When is enough actually enough?? The contest sure isn’t what it used to be… as eurovision fan of over 30 years, I’m starting to go off it… sad times
Here here I have done 55 years and it needs to be cancelled as of now , the show is a disgrace taking money from innocent people voting its a scam
Same feeling here also a longterm fan.
Hopefully the EBU will see sense and ban Israel. It’s shocking that it’s only in retrospect that we’re finding this out, and that the EBU are basically continuing on as if nothing has happened.
When Spain and Ireland asked for some discussion earlier this year they’re were told to be too late and outdated. I really don’t get what was everyone expecting about Israel in 2025… To behave as a fair contestant, after seeing what happened in 2024? They have to be banned once and forever, until they get back to a democratic, trustworthy State.
I want to write so much, but I am tired. Nothing will change unless countries start dropping out.
Belgium’s total votes in the grand finals of the last 3 years as given to VRT by the EBU:
2023: 129932
2024: 200614
2025: 220554
Sidenote that this year’s final (and last year’s as well) was watched by less people than in 2023 (expected since Belgium wasn’t in the final in 2024 and 2025).
Things are started to get proven.
Many people watch Gran Final online on youtube instead on on national TV.
Not that many. Why use all the bandwidth on YouTube when you can watch it on the TV? Even then the numbers of people voting would not be that much greater than is reported
This is good investigative journalism with fact checking and sources so you can decide for yourself what to make of them. The Israeli government may have gone overboard here, but there’s nothing illegal nor was it hiding what it was doing. Israel didn’t take part in any of the Eurovision pre-parties so it had to make a concerted online ad campaign. Let’s say it reached 10 million people: That still doesn’t even begin to explain the potential televote result of nearly 200 million viewers. Watching an ad popping up on your screen doesn’t mean you can’t ignore it, skip it… Read more »
That’s also a valid point.
Yuval and also Eden couldn’t participate in pre-parties because of security reasons and death threaths.
The other singers made alliances to reach people from those other countries.
Like JJ, Sissal, Kyle and Louane,
or Erika and Mariana,
or Parg with many videos together with other contestants, as promotion and
to gain sympathy from viewers.
Is governmental interference allowed? In my opinion add campaigns by individual artists are allowed, but governments can’t interfere with the contest?
I think that things are quite obvious including the next steps that should be taken. According to EBU Code of Conduct all participating broadcasters need to take all necessary measures “to avoid the contest becoming politicised or “instrumentalised”.” State-funded advertising can be considered a direct intervention to the political neutrality of the contest. It can also be considered as an act that undermines the Fair Play rules that are also outlined in the Code of Conduct. On addition to that EBU has previously expressed direct concerns about government control through direct funding of KAN: https://www.ebu.ch/news/2024/11/ebu-urges-israel-to-keep-public-broadcaster-budget-out-of-government-control I think it’s time for… Read more »
Yes but there’s an additional problem, in the Netherlands several right wing politicians were begging to vote for the song… , as long as Israel is in the competition it will never be fair.
Actually, the EBU code of conduct is a perfect basis to ban Spain and Belgium, rather than Israel. In Spain, they have repeatedly broadcasted anti-Israeli messages to the viewers before the Israeli song (in spite of repeated warnings by the EBU that were based on that code). In Belgium they did the same and even worse.
It’s OK cause Malta & other countries did it too… if Israel did a campaign this is totally OK and not against the rules 🙂 Beautiful song and STUNNING performance, I love the last part with the firework waterfall. I hope for more top 5 results in the upcoming years. LOVE YOU ISRAEL
I don’t know why the 20-votes-thing was introduced. It was only implemented in my country (Denmark) last year. I think everyone should have as many votes as there are participants (minus your own country if in a show), but that you can only vote once per participant. It seems fairer and not as calculated.
But also, kick Israel out. They are not good for the spirit of the contest. There’s a reason why everyone is not only happy, but relieved, JJ won.
Do you know what’s truly not good for the spirit of the contest? It’s the abuse directed at a contestant who had just as much right to be there as anyone else. It’s juries allowing political bias to influence their scoring, and the protests that created a hostile and divisive atmosphere. Eurovision is meant to bring people together through music—not turn into a platform for targeted animosity.
Yes. And why was it different so that we in Denmark could not vote 20 times while others could? Was weird.
On think your suggestion for a now voting procedure is good. You can vote for all the songs you like, but only one time pr. song.
I’m sorry there was a problem to equally vote in Denmark, thqt’s unfortunate. But this “weirdness” as you describe here is therefore a glitch within Denmark or EBU systems. Surely you don’t think that Israel tried to control and sabotage this. If so, this just gets to wilder and wilder conspiracy theories.
Yes I agree multiple votes but only one vote per act. I read online that people bought multiple simcards and from different countries. People would buy for instance 3 cards from 3 different countries and cast 20 votes from each on the same act. This will be a lot harder if you have 1 vote per act policy,vyou would have to buy 30 simcards instead of just 3 to impact the vote like that.
The proposal of “One vote per Contest participant” sound fair and logical, however, it does not eliminate the possibility of gathering more votes from the advertisements, campaigns urging to vote for a particular performance (so to one genuine/casual viewer vote for “A”, there could be 100 “bot” votes for “B”…). So “One Vote per Contest participant” and no vote gathering (advertisements, campaigns” etc…) should go together, to keep the situation as close as possible to genuine. Also, the financial side is peculiar too… 20 (multiple) votes were introduced for a reason I guess (money gathering…), so I suppose it would… Read more »
If they put so much effort on a song contest just image the kind of things they do to cover their crimes.
Is there a law prohibiting government sponsored promotion in the rules? Will a similar investigation be preformed for every participating country? This sounds like a witch hunt.
Most countries do the same as Israel yet the reporter only has an issue with said country. Laughable
It seems like there’s one easy solution to most of the EBU’s problems…
But there is one obstacle. Germany, I read an article on another Eurovision new site that if Israel is kicked out, Germany would withdraw from Eurovision, which could have repercussions as one of if not the largest contributor to the EBU.
But sooner or later, I think the pressure will grow to such an extent that keeping Israel will be worse than letting them go. We’ve got stormy days ahead.
But on the flipside, what if Spain (in favor of the inquiries) withdrew? Or even the U.K.? That will open the floodgates for even more to withdraw. We could have a contest with so few participants (even as few as half of this year’s), that it could be done in ONE day, like it was in 2003; and the contest would last 3 hours or less. It would be a fiasco.
This is why all the other big 5 need to get serious and pull out, to isolate Germany and making losing Germany not such a big cost in comparison.
That was then, this is now… EU has started to think about how to halt the agreements with Israel and they will come along with their partners. Vienna 2026 is still very far away
Can’t wait for the EBU to ban ads next year and Israel winning the televote anyway. The copium among hms fanboys will be fun to watch.
If this happens every year, it’s getting ridiculous. I hated seeing every day Yuval on my YouTube speaking my language, incouraging me to vote for Israel.
I’m for fair Eurovision where the main focus is on performance, song, vocals, staging etc., not corrupt governments
UK did it as well, I was having my duolingo lesson and then I got an ad to vote for UK and I was like huuuuuh? They are doing ads now? XD
Imagine buying ads and getting nil points in televote 😀
Well well now
I noticed that for example Finnish semi performance got cut off by Israel ads 11 times during one watching. Couldn’t watch the vidros at all!!! Tommy got less, but still 5-6 times. Also i didnt even see France b4 final, it just froze after playng the ad for *****and displayed: this video cannot be played
Malta also did it… so?
If it was sponsored by their government EBU needs to investigate it as well.
Evidence please
Do you know a lot of Maltese people living outside of Malta of massively voting for it? No. That’s the problem here.
No. Her record company did – that’s a lot different than a government-run agency.
That was their record company and broadcaster. Not the government. That is exactly the issue here!
EBU decided to ignore the problem, and now they’re trapped in a lose-lose situation. And the worst thing is: they could avoid all this mess, it was quite easy…
Nothing new here, we were all aware of that.
Does Israel have the right to do that? I don’t know all the rules of Eurovision but it seems legal to me.
Does it show that Israel is playing a dirty game? Definitely. They may play by the rules but they definitely take advantage of the voting system.
Will we discover other shady things? Probably.
Last year Eden Golan received more televotes than Europapa, but her song wasn’t popular on Spotify and You Tube, whereas Europapa already had millions of views and streams. I found out Dutch right wing politicians organised voting campaigns to vote for Israel combined with a voting campaign by the ISR government itself, this explains why the Dutch televoters, rewarded the song with 12 points. EBU knew this, but did nothing to prevent it, so the same thing happened again because it pays off. For example Geert Wilders and Caroline van der Plas asked their viewers to vote for Israel again… Read more »
Same here in Denmark last year. Right wing politician Inger Støjberg asking her followers to vote for Israel. As if she ever cares for the competition or the song. And we ender up awarding 8 points (like in 2025)
Let’s assume politics is not part of this (just for an example). Why on earth would Israel want to invest so much money in advertising this entry? It’s only been 7 years since they won, in comparison to Malta who used to do this and had never won before (and I’m sure there are other examples). 7 years in ‘Eurovision time’ is really not that much, they’re still on the ‘Eurovision winners of the last 10 years’ list and so on. And if we do assume politics is part of this, well, you have the answer then. I just think… Read more »
Because it’s the best propaganda/hasbara tool they have there’s a lot art wash here
It’s the best possible propaganda tool they can get to art wash their sins in the whole European continent and beyond, Netanyahu himself interfered with the lyrics of the song last year, Why would he do that if it’s just a song. ESC is very important for them.
“Why on earth would Israel want to invest so much money in advertising this entry?”
The answer is so easy. Whitewash of war crime.
Also Jury Bias should be investigated!
The other Martin appears to be useless as well. “The EBU has the most advanced voting system and the EBU is gonna investigate the EBU and the EBU can confirm that the EBU did no wrong.” Urgh.
Regardless of your stance on the matter. I think we can all agree that buying ads to gain more votes will definitely help ruin all the fun in the contest.
And if the government government buys ads it’s even more against the spirit of Esc.
This is not only about the ads. Whoever has run a campaign before, knows this. Ads are not this effective. We are talking about millions of votes for Israel. Online ads have a success rate of 1-2%, and especially they work when the client wants it. If a normal person sees an ad about Israel they are not going to vote just because of it. So we are looking to a 0.1 to 0.5% success rate at best from my experience. This migjlht seem low, but they really are normal numbers for online campaigns. So, are you telling me they… Read more »
Israel really seems desperate to be loved or at least make it look like people love it.
True! And after Eurovision there were many posts (also made by government account) stating that European loved Israel due to a massive public voting!! Hilarious:)
Hey Israel, it’s not that hard 🙂 Just try to stop murdering people 🙂 It works 🙂
Yuval Raphael was solely approached to represent them for the sob story and cuz of her multi-millionaire family
they could’ve just not gone w.a.r. related with a fun act like Balkan Beat Box whom never include sensitive topics in their songs, but yeah that would be boring for those predictable tiny tools
wouldn’t be surprised if Yuval’s family has got a load of influence within the government
Plus it was kind of ultranationalist song plus the first thing she explained about herself is that she was a victim of Oct 7th… I mean, no politics for the contestants except for Israel, that always is allowed to.
The EBU will say they found no irregularities of course.
The only way this will change is if the broadcasters call for it. I said it last year and I say it now this year too.
Thankfully seems to be happening this year with Belgium, Spain, Ireland, Iceland, Slovenia and Netherlands calling this mess out.
EBU must wake up.
and now the Netherlands too,
Add The Netherlands to this list
And if they stay asleep by sweeping it under the rug yet again (something that, so far, it looks like the other broadcasters will not tolerate again), next year’s contest will be void of so many participants (quite probably including at least one from the Big 5) that it will be held on ONE day. It will be a fiasco, and it could also be the last.
I hope EBU finally grew some spine. They have a history of lying, the best example being Junior Eurovision 2020 when they denied France using playback in their recording. It was disgusting and I lost my respect for EBU back then.