EBU may kick Poland out of Eurovision

The European Broadcasting Union is monitoring the situation in Poland and may bar it from the Eurovision Song Contest over the new media law, The Financial Times reported. “If they breach the statutes of the EBU, we will have a problem with them,” its president, Jean-Paul Philippot said. He warned that Poland even could be kicked out of the organization, and therefore out of Eurovision, since only EBU members are allowed to take part in the contest. The EBU has already warned Poland about its conduct. “To preserve the integrity and independence of public service media as a symbol of a free and democratic country, we ask you in the strongest possible terms not to sign this measure into law,” Ingrid Deltenre, the EBU’s director general, wrote to Polish President Andrzej Duda in December.