{"id":201921,"date":"2026-01-01T05:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=201921"},"modified":"2026-01-01T05:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:23:15","slug":"eurovision-song-contest-changes-rules-after-israel-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=201921","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision Song Contest changes rules after Israel controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Olivia Le PoidevinGENEVA (Reuters) -Organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest announced on Friday changes to voting rules to avoid state interference after controversy over Israel&#8217;s entry this year. The new rules by the European Broadcasting Union discourage governments and third parties from &#8220;disproportionately promoting&#8221; songs to sway voters &#8211; and say they could otherwise face sanctions&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2025\/11\/eurovision-song-contest-changes-rules-after-israel-controversy\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olivia Le PoidevinGENEVA (Reuters) -Organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest announced on Friday changes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/201921-eurovision-song-contest-changes-rules-after-israel-controversy.JPG",1200,628,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/201921-eurovision-song-contest-changes-rules-after-israel-controversy-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/201921-eurovision-song-contest-changes-rules-after-israel-controversy-300x157.jpg",300,157,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/201921-eurovision-song-contest-changes-rules-after-israel-controversy-768x402.jpg",640,335,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/201921-eurovision-song-contest-changes-rules-after-israel-controversy-1024x536.jpg",640,335,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/201921-eurovision-song-contest-changes-rules-after-israel-controversy.JPG",1200,628,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/201921-eurovision-song-contest-changes-rules-after-israel-controversy.JPG",1200,628,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/201921-eurovision-song-contest-changes-rules-after-israel-controversy-1024x536.jpg",1024,536,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/201921-eurovision-song-contest-changes-rules-after-israel-controversy-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/201921-eurovision-song-contest-changes-rules-after-israel-controversy-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Europe<\/a>","tag_info":"Europe","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}