"United" by Music: The Politics of the Apolitical Eurovision Song Contest
Year: 2025

Since 1956, the European Broadcasting Union has hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in a quest to unite Europe after World War II and after the fall of the Soviet Union.Eurovision prides itself on being an apolitical entity that only focuses on music.In this thesis, I argue that Eurovision is extremely political.Three things make up Eurovision: voting, performance, and the songs.All of them are political in some form.With countries participating against each other, voting for each other is a poli