liffeyman@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoIrish broadcaster RTE says that Ireland will not participate in Eurovision next year if Israel doesabout.rte.ieexternal-linkmessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up1230arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.mleurope@feddit.org
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minus-squarekreskin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoLook at this map of EBU members and associate members https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Broadcasting_Union#/media/File:EBU_Member_Elliptic.svg If australia is a “member” then so is china, india, iran, brazil, chile, egypt, algeria, south africa, japan, new zealand, malaysia, brunei So…is iran allowed to compete? How about the Brunei, a portion of the island of Borneo? "Euro"vision becomes a bit of a joke, doesnt it.
Look at this map of EBU members and associate members https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Broadcasting_Union#/media/File:EBU_Member_Elliptic.svg
If australia is a “member” then so is china, india, iran, brazil, chile, egypt, algeria, south africa, japan, new zealand, malaysia, brunei
So…is iran allowed to compete? How about the Brunei, a portion of the island of Borneo? "Euro"vision becomes a bit of a joke, doesnt it.