{"id":1303846,"date":"2025-10-09T14:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/eurovision-2026-may-not-take-place-what-happened-and-what-does-israel-have-to-do-with-it\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:24:15","slug":"eurovision-2026-may-not-take-place-what-happened-and-what-does-israel-have-to-do-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/eurovision-2026-may-not-take-place-what-happened-and-what-does-israel-have-to-do-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision 2026 may not take place: What happened and what does Israel have to do with it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Eurovision Song Contest 2026 may not take place in Austria, as the host country may withdraw from the show due to the possible exclusion of Israel from participating.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oe24.at\/oesterreich\/politik\/politik-insider\/jetzt-wackelt-songcontest-in-wien\/651725013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">OE24<\/a> reports, Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker stated that such a decision would contradict the principles of equality and tolerance that guide the competition.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It is impossible that we, more than anyone else, should prohibit a Jewish artist from coming to Vienna,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p> The mayor of the Austrian capital, Michael Ludwig, also agreed that excluding Israel would be a mistake. However, he believes the show should go ahead, as it would generate significant revenue for the budget.<\/p>\n<p> \t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/its-official-ukraine-will-take-part-in-eurovision-2026\/\">It&#8217;s official: Ukraine will take part in Eurovision 2026<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\nIncidentally, the broadcaster ORF has already signed an agreement with the EBU and committed to hosting the contest. However, if Austria decides to withdraw from Eurovision 2026, the channel will be forced to pay a fine of approximately \u20ac40 million.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, the 70th anniversary Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Austria. <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/yevrobachennia-2026-vidbudetsia-u-vidni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vienna has been chosen<\/a> as the host city. The semi-finals will take place on May 12 and 14, and the grand final will take place on May 16, 2026, at the Wiener Stadthalle, Austria&#8217;s largest indoor arena.<\/p>\n<p> It is worth noting that in 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/avstriia-stala-peremozhtsem-yevrobachennia-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Eurovision Song Contest was won by the representative of Austria &#8211; JJ with the song Wasted Love<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Ziferblat represented Ukraine at Eurovision 2025 with the song &#8220;Bird of Pray,&#8221; finishing 9th. With their performance, the band cemented Ukraine&#8217;s status as the only country in the contest&#8217;s history to qualify for the final every year since its first appearance in 2003.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, &#8220;Pryamoy&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/yevrobachennia-2025-tekstova-onlayn-transliatsiia-konkursu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conducted a text online broadcast of the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/hurt-ziferblat-vystupyv-na-stseni-yevrobachennia-2025-iak-tse-bulo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You can watch the Ukrainian band Ziferblat perform here<\/a> . <\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eurovision Song Contest 2026 may not take place in Austria, as the host country may withdraw from the show due to the possible exclusion of Israel from participating. As OE24 reports, Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker stated that such a decision would contradict the principles of equality and tolerance that guide the competition. &#8220;It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1230045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24160,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1303846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-ru","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1230045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}