As for safety - our organizing committee honestly mentioned all the dangers to the EBU, so I don't get this
they risk people's lives/"reckless" mantra.
The EBU officials had only one meeting with organizing committee and they didn't even discuss anything. The EBU did not aknowledge PBC about their decision before public announcement
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PBC found out like everyone else.
The EBU did not discuss safety with our officials who were in organizing committee, instead they cited the Head of NATO who said that the war
could last for years, basically basing their decision on hypothetical situation while absolutely neglecting our delegation. PBC had all rights to ask for additional talks, because our organizing committee wasn't even given a chance to answer EBU's concerns.
To me the EBU's decision was obvious, but the way it was handled was unacceptable.
I am very surprised by the reaction of the Ukrainian delegation and with all solidarity to Ukraine in this war, this attitude rubs me the wrong way on that matter. The country is under attack and a lot is already destroyed. Population has a lot of other needs than ESC being held in their country.
Let
the population us decide what we need, pls. Eurovision 2022 ratings & record breaking popularity of our entry in our YT have already proven you wrong. The hosting expenses would have been covered by at least 3 countries that backed us up next day after the final in Torino. Though, we can live without hosting, it would helped us even more - our performers have gathered approx. 90 million € thanks to Eurovision in 2022, so saying that we should have other needs is wrong at its core.
Nobody knows how the situation will be next year but preparations need to happen as soon as possible and thats why it's the only reasonable decision they did.
Totally agree. The documents from every host-city candidate should be sent to the EBU in August already, so they need these guarantees like now. But this is the EBU's job to give deadlines so government officials (who aren't familiar with Eurovision) could understand why their bid got rejected, or at least the EBU could discuss the whole situation with the broadcaster and organizing committee.