Eurovision has tightened its rules around voting and promotion ahead of a key meeting that will decide on Israel ‘s participation amid a boycott threat from several nations.

Eurovision director Martin Green told the BBC said there had been “a lot of feedback from members and our fans” following the 2025 show including that there had been too much “undue promotion particularly by third parties, perhaps governments, that are out of proportion of the rest of the natural promotion that you should see in the show.” This followed reports that the Israeli Government Advertising Agency had paid for adverts and promoted its contestant, who came second, via state social media accounts.

With that in mind, Eurovision will now “discourage disproportionate promotion campaigns… particularly when u

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