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The Netherlands 
In the wake of the latest developments in the Netherlands regarding the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest 2027 and AVROTROS’ witdhrawal from the competition in next year, ESCToday brings you an official statement from the EBU regarding this matter.
Dutch national broacaster, AVROTROS has decided not to compete at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest 2027 in Bulgaria
ESCToday reached out to the EBU in order to shed more light on this issue. Martin Green (Eurovision Song Contest Director) gave ESCToday the following statement on behalf of the EBU:
We regret AVROTROS’ decision to no longer participate in the Eurovision Song Contest but understand their choice and respect the views of our member broadcasters. The Eurovision Song Contest has always been a place to bring people together, celebrate diverse communities, and show that a better world is possible even in the most difficult times. We will now continue our dialogue with NPO, the umbrella organization for Dutch public service media, regarding the opportunities for another broadcaster to participate. We very much hope that audiences and artists in the Netherlands can continue to be represented in the Eurovision Song Contest.
The EBU is currently in talks with the NPO in order to for another Dutch broadcaster to compete at the Eurovision Song Contest. We will have to wait and see how the NPO will move forward now and if it will hand over the Eurovision baton to another Dutch public national broadcaseter.
We mus take into account that the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 the competition was broadcast live in the Netherlands via NPO/NOS.
The Netherlands is one of the founder members of the Eurovision Song Contest having partaken in the contest for the very first time in 1956 and has competed in the contest 65 times. The Dutch have the contest five times (1957, 1959, 1969, 1975 and 2019).
