EuroVisión 2025 It has already started but, unlike other years, it does not seem. The European Musical Festival on May 3 Output gun to your trialswhich always work to turn on the conversation about the contest between press and fans. However, the new measures of the European Radiodifusion Union They have reduced the impact to practically silence it.
Although for the general public Eurovision begins and ends the same day of its grand final, which this year is the Saturday, May 17for artists, chains, journalists and eurofans start with two weeks in advancewhen all representatives already prove their proposals on the scenario of the event.
It was then that historically the edition began to have a greater echo in the media and even impact on betssince as a result of being able to see the actions everything could change or finish defining. However, in Basel 2025 The situation has changed and the audiovisual material of each number is limited by the UER, which in pursuit of Maintain secretism and surprise factor for the semifinals and final It has reduced previous conversation.
Thus, and while in the past we could see a wide gallery of photo and videos of the actions from the first individual essay of each country, and fragments of the performance performed since the second, this year they are only being revealed Three photographs per candidateone day after your test on stage.
In the same way, Access to individual essays has been closed to the press Both in person and in the online press center, and journalists will only be able to access the first general trials within the stadium, those that are present at the headquarters. Another measure that preserves secretism for the galas, but reduces the maximum the feedback And the noise which has always surrounded the festival. In fact, even the official profile in X of Eurovision has been inactive since December 2024, and only Material on Instagram is being shared.
-In spite St. Jakobshalle To make your first contact shots. Iceland, Poland, Slovenia, Estonia, Ukraine, Sweden and Portugal They started on Saturday day 3, while Norway, Belgium, Azerbaijan, San Marino, Albania, Netherlands, Croatia and Chipre They did it on Sunday, May 4.
This Monday 5 is the turn of Australia, Montenegro, Ireland, Latvia, Armenia, Austria, Greece and Lithuaniaand on Tuesday 6 they will Malta, Georgia, Denmark, Chequia, Luxembourg, Israel, Serbia and Finland. The turn of Melody Together with the Italians, Swiss, British, French and Germans will be the Thursday May 8when the rest of the countries have already completed their second days of essays.
The Banderas Policy, another controversial decision of the UU
On the other hand, and without leaving aside the controversial decisions, in recent days the New Banderas de la Uuer For Eurovision 2025, where only participants will be allowed to wave the badges of the countries they represent.
This entails, for example, that the representative of Denmark Sissal will not be able to carry the symbol of its birthplace, the Faroe Islands. And in the same way, it causes that we cannot see prints like 2024 with Nemo (Switzerland) carrying the non -binary flag, since all LGTBIQ+ badges are also prohibited For artists. Given this measure, the public television of the Netherlands, the Avrotros, has announced that it will oppose and claim the presence of pride flags on the Eurovision stage.
However, this change in the norms also has a counterpoint, and that is that those related to the public will also be different from those of recent years. After Malmö 2024 was vetoed Palestine flagin Basilea the stadium attendees can look Anyone who does not violate Swiss lawsincluding those of non -participating countries such as Palestine, regional symbols or the aforementioned rainbow flag.
