I used to think that the Eurovision Song Contest could give the European Union a lot of pointers. Inaugurated in 1956, making it more than twice as old as the EU, the competition has juggled cross-border enmities, voting machinations and the occasional war — in addition to music, smoke machines and choreography. For most of those seven decades, it’s self-corrected after scandals and controversies more nimbly than bureaucrats in Brussels can measure out red tape. Indeed, its broadly utopian visio
I used to think that the Eurovision Song Contest could give the European Union a lot of pointers. Inaugurated in 1956, making it more than twice as old as the EU, the competition has juggled cross-border enmities, voting machinations and the occasion… [910 chars]
Source: Bloomberg | Published: 2025-12-12T04:30:22Z
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