EBU Threatens to Sue Spain; Spain Claps Back

RTVE commentators Tony Aguilar and Julia Varela called for a discussion about Israel's participation in the event and recalled the death toll in Gaza - Watch the video

The European Union of Radio Dissemination (UER), organised by the Eurovision, threatened the RTVE that it would be punished if comments on Gaza were repeated in the edition this Saturday.

EBU threatens to sue Spain; Spain claps back

And Spain has just responded right before starting Eurovision Final This is the message they have just aired:

With just hours to go before the Eurovision final begins, the controversy over Israel's participation in the competition has escalated. This Saturday, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), organizer of the competition, issued a threat to RTVE for the comments made in recent days condemning Israel's genocide in Gaza and Palestine. In the message they sent, they warned the corporation of "punitive fines" if they do not cease the denouncing commen…

"I prefer to pay a fine to be complicit in a genocide," the journalist says after the warning

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has threatened Spanish state broadcaster RTVE with fines after Spanish broadcasters once again mentioned the war in Gaza during their Eurovision broadcast. On Thursday, Israel's entry was aired in the second semi-final of the contest and was one of those that advanced to tonight's final. During Yuval Raphael's performance, Tony Aguilar and Julia Varela, RTVE's hosts for the Spanish broadcast of the contest, …