Several Countries To LEAVE Eurovision? | ESC 2025

After quite a controversial year in 2024, there's rumblings that SEVERAL different countries could potentially WITHDRAW from the EUROVISION SONG CONTEST 2025! Who will step back? Why would they leave the ESC? And just how far reaching could this be not just for 2025, but for the long-term future of Eurovision as a whole...

00:00 - Intro
01:35 - Bosnia & Herzegovina
02:15 - Montenegro
03:08 - Slovakia
03:47 - Moldova
04:20 - Non-EBU Members
05:52 - San Marino
07:10 - Norway
08:41 - Czechia
09:59 - Latvia
14:15 - The Netherlands
15:25 - Conclusion
16:45 - Credits

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[AdamMartyn]

Do you think any of the 37 nations from this year will withdraw in 2025?

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[rhodrage]

Everyone leaves.

Britain still loses.

[mysticgirl]

Just found out that the Latvian parliament has voted against a petition asking the broadcaster to permanently withdraw and redirect those funds towards sports, thereby clearing the way for a potential participation in 2025

[kavehhosseinpour]

2025 feels like a mess and i have a feeling in 1 year we will be saying ”Did we call 2024 a mess? Then this is a disaster”

[stevebrittain]

Hungary - doubtful as long as Orban is in power. Same with Erdoğan in Türkiye.

[jackmellor]

One of my favourite things about Eurovision is discovering artists from outside the Anglosphere. If you look at who wins Best International in the Brit Awards, you'll find it's dominated by American artists and the few non Americans who do win it tend to be from other Anglosphere countries.

[Maarcis]

Hi, Adam, a Latvian viewer here, the whole "behave obscenely"part in that petition is more towards the non-binary status of the many artists, we're not entirely anti-LGBT, we've made some improvements to be acceptable, but unfortunately it's still way far away to be completely acceptable, for instance old gens have a hard time accepting Nemo's female style outfit, not to mention, the very first gay pride back in 2000's here wasn't received well with the attendees having to have a security on them.

[gwheregwhizz]

Problems include:
1. Casual viewers aren't interested when their countries go out in the semi-finals.
2. Smaller nations can't compete with the larger ones on staging due to cost.
3. Too many entrantsls since the fall of the Berlin wall. Forty-odd countries, means on average a country will win it once every forty-odd years and probably only finish in the top five, once every eight years or so. You may not live long enough to see your country win it again 😮.
4. Due to various online polls on the run-up etc. everyone knows who will win before the contest starts.
5. It's become 'too' cheesy.
6. Controversial but factual; it's not very diverse (too LGBTQ+ centric/too white/not enough variation in genres) compared to the music industry in general.
7. Who had the bright idea to allow voting before all songs are performed? Do any other contests allow that?
8. Viewers don't like the idea of the larger countries getting in the final when smaller ones need to qualify.
9. Over political voting.
10. It drags on for far too long for the casual viewer.

[MulleMap]

I bet that lichtenstein will get a much better score than germany💀

[papillon]

It got too toxic. The toxic people themselves ofc won't admit that they are part of the problem, because they live in the belief tha they have the right to act like a piece of sh*t if things don't go their way 🤢

[GompBeanie]

i dont hope norway is going to quit next year. im from norway and i love eurovision and mgp!! :D we did get last place this year, but in 2023 we got a rlly good place!

[thekatiecage]

I NEVER want any countries to withdraw!

[radio_marco]

4:38 Liechtenstein would make kinda sense for 2025 because of their good relations with Switzerland (customerunion, same currency etc.)

[EmoBearRights]

And yet they won't ditch the one they should.

[Larssonnie]

If my 3 most favourite countries will leave in one time, I'll never watch Eurovision again! 🇳🇱❤️🇱🇻🇳🇴

[OBrasilo]

The problem is, we can't keep politics away from the contest (not that sports are any less politicized right now). Belarus was banned for supposedly sending a political song in 2021 (but Ukraine did that twice if not thrice and that wasn't a problem), Russia was banned for invading Ukraine (but Turkey was never banned for invading Northern Cyprus, nor was France ever banned for the Algerian War), we also keep hearing how Eurovision's values are democracy, etc., but the same contest had no problem accepting Spain under Francisco Franco, Portugal under Salazar, Greece under the miitary junta, Turkey under military coupists, Yugoslavia under Tito, etc. (and still today has no problems accepting eg. Azerbaijan under Aliyev, go figure). The change happened after 1991 when Yugoslavia was suddenly banned because of the Balkan wars (but Croatia, who also claimed a part of BiH - the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia - and who committed such "nice" things as Operation: Storm in 1995 with which they ethnically cleansed Vojna Krajina of Serbs, was never banned), it's almost like after the end of the cold war, some form of arrogance took over the West, causing it to become very tribal and authoritarian.

Sure, let's ban Israel. But then, let's be contest, and also ban Turkey for occupying Northern Cyprus, any NATO member state who has troops anywhere in Africa, Syria, Iraq, etc., And of the remainder, half can easily banned for the same reason as Belarus, ie. sending political songs. We're quickly going to be left with an Eurovision in which only one or two countries participate. Is that really what we want?

[lohatrons]

Information about Latvia, common sense prevailed yesterday evening in parliament and withdrawal from eurovision was voted against so I as far as I understand they will participate

[markskristians]

I see that one Latvian already explained the context, however, I want to add a bit more:

There’s quite many initiatives that collect 10k signatures and get looked at in the Saeima, however, most
of them do not get passed. In addition to this, our current government is quite progressive, and for the first time we have a Left-view government, so this might help the cause of the initiative to not reach further stages

[elveon]

Strange you didn’t mention Monaco, considering their development towards participating.

[DirkthePanda]

Could it be like 1970 where a good cluster* of countries drop out due to what happened the previous year, then rejoin the following year? Given, 1969 had a different main reason for controversy, but it lead to a lasting impact with big rule changes (new voting format, more performers on stage, etc.). If the EBU does not make any big moves this year, I get the feeling 2025 will be noticeably smaller, before jumping back up in 2026 (assuming the dip scares the EBU into making big changes).

*Long story short for 1970, 1969 had a 4-way tie. All the Scandinavian countries + Portugal (they placed pretty poorly) boycotted 1970 as a result, but then they returned in 1971.