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🇧🇪 Belgium: VRT Faces Both Criticism & Support For Confirming Eurovision 2027 Participation

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VRT, the Dutch-language Belgian public broadcaster, is facing strong criticism from trade unions but also support from some politicians for confirming its participation in the Eurovision Song Contest.

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The VRT, which announced on Wednesday its participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2027, will not organise a selection event to designate the artist who will represent Belgium in Bulgaria. This artist will be nominated by the Flemish public channel. ...

·Brussels, Belgium
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VRT will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest next year after all. That decision has met with considerable incomprehension. ‘A VRT participating in the...

·Antwerp, Belgium
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Illustration. - D.R. The unions of the VRT, ACV and ACOD, have filed a strike notice for Tuesday 11, Thursday 13 and Saturday 15 May 2027, dates on which the semi-finals and the final of the Eurovision Song Contest are scheduled, they announce on Thursday in a joint press release. Their aim is "to protect all employees who raise moral objections to contribute, directly or indirectly, to the programmes and broadcasts related to the Eurovision Son…

The trade unions ACV and ACOD filed a strike notice on Thursday. They did so a day after VRT announced that the broadcaster wants to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Trade unions organized in the Flemish public broadcaster VRT have announced a strike notice for May 11, 13 and 15 of Eurovision 2027, in which Israel will also take part. ACV VRT and ACOD-VRT aim to protect employees who have a moral objection to contributing to the competition.

Belgium will also be competing at Eurovision 2027, which will take place from May 11 to May 13 in Burgas in Bulgaria VRT, the Flemish broadcaster that this year oversees the participation has dissolved the reserves and announced that it will be in the race, as well as the Netherlands So the note diffused by the Broadcaster: VRT has informed today the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the organizer of the event,...

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esctoday.com broke the news on Wednesday, September 23, 2026.
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