Re: ROMANIA 2017
B. They can't afford to pay anything and will be forced to sit out for another year
This. There is no chance for TVR to pay the debt since they will be put in insolvency soon. TVR is the perfect image of corruption in Romania: nepotism, political incompetence, tax evasion, misuse of public funds and so on. Their ratings are, in general, zero. The only time of the year when TVR scores a little bit of audience is when Eurovision season kicks in. So without ESC they are pretty much dead already. Nobody watches their programs, really.
I guess we have to get our shit together, disband TVR and create a new and more competent public broadcaster, if it's possible (I personally doubt it, many politicians have a lot of interest to keep TVR the the mess that it is right now).
This is probably a farewell, Eurovision.