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Protests and "Bangaranga." Bulgaria is returning to a politicized "Eurovision."

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Mediapool

Eurovision’s 70th anniversary faces a backdrop of protests and boycotts, overshadowing the music spectacle in Vienna.

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The upcoming 70th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, which is expected to feature music, protests, and “Bangaranga,” faces a situation where its major musical event might be overshadowed by demonstrations and boycotts. The text also includes a request for readers to register on Mediapool.bg to support independent journalism and access an archive spanning over 20 years.

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PULSE – Europe beyond the beat is an initiative coordinated by OBCT which has been promoting intense journalistic cross-border collaborations in Europe since 2024. The main aim is to help strengthen the European public sphere by reporting and telling stories from new and diverse perspectives.

At the heart of PULSE are 10 leading national news outlets (Delfi – Lithuania, Deník Referendum – Czechia, Der Standard – Austria, EfSyn – Greece, El Confidencial – Spain, Gazeta Wyborcza – Poland, HotNews – Romania, HVG – Hungary, Il Sole 24 Ore – Italy, Mediapool – Bulgaria) and three transnational organisations, including OBCT , n-ost and Voxeurop .

PULSE’s offering also includes the distribution of free content to third-party outlets and the animation of four thematic networks open to any European journalist interested in crucial issues such as EU enlargement, Europe and other global powers, the green transition, or media and information society.

PULSE is driven by a sort of virtual transnational newsroom made up of journalists from all the publications involved, which produces new journalistic content on European issues in a collaborative way on a daily basis, coming in many languages. A further layer of associated partners and journalists enriches PULSE’s editorial output, which amounts to over a thousand publications per year.