BHRT, the Bosnian national broadcaster, has seen it’s debt increase to the EBU, the European Broadcasting Union, meaning the Bosnians are still excluded from Eurovision events.

The Head of the BHRT International Affairs Department and former Head of Delegation at the Eurovision Song Contest, Lejla Babović confirmed that BHRT now owe the EBU a total of €9.67m. Following Montesong, Lejla Babović had the following to say:

“The state stands behind the Public service of Montenegro, and will help it to recover and strengthen itself. What I saw last night reminds me of the show programs that we watch in the West, and the show that is seen at the Eurovision Song Contest itself.

The European way. It pains me that twenty years ago we were able to organise all that without any problems, and today… Just look at the attitude of the state and the authorities towards the public broadcaster of Bosnia and Herzegovina. They swear by the European path, and the issue of the functioning of the public broadcaster is one of the chapters on the path to the European Union.”

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Author: Richard Taylor

Source: Eurovoix