Basel voters are expected to decide on Sunday whether they should spend tens of millions of dollars to host the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, with opponents decrying a "waste" of public funds for a "blasphemous" music performance. If inhabitants in the northern Swiss region of Basel-Stadt block the 34.96 million Swiss francs needed to put on the annual TV extravaganza, …
MALMO, Sweden — A Dutch public broadcaster reacted angrily after the Netherlands’ contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest was dramatically expelled from the competition hours before Saturday’s final over a backstage altercation that is being investigated by police. The European Broadcasting Union, which organizes Eurovision, said that Swedish police were investigating “a complaint made by a female member of the …