A Special Announcement from Douze Points

Last week, on Thursday 4 December, EBU members met for the organisation’s scheduled General Assembly.
At this meeting, Spanish broadcaster RTVE, along with seven other countries, called for a secret ballot on Israel’s participation, passing the threshold of five members required for the vote to take place.
However, the EBU chose to tie this vote to its proposed new rules for the contest, creating a false dichotomy: accept the new rules with no vote on participation, or reject the rules and carry out a vote on participation.
This put broadcasters in an unfairly difficult position, as they…