{"id":12991,"date":"2021-05-01T09:16:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T09:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=12991"},"modified":"2021-05-01T09:16:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T09:16:31","slug":"holding-eurovision-in-rotterdam-with-the-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=12991","title":{"rendered":"Holding Eurovision in Rotterdam With the Audience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dutch authorities allowed the audience to be present in the hall during the international song contest &#8220;Eurovision&#8221;, which will be held in May in Rotterdam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; May 1, 2021 &#8211; Ukraine Society and Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We welcome the decision of the Dutch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=8560\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"8560\">government <\/a>and the opportunity to invite fans to join the Eurovision Song Contest in May,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the organizers on the website of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=9557\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"9557\">competition<\/a>, in the coming weeks, it will be announced how it is planned to allow spectators to the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All nine shows &#8211; six rehearsals, two semi-finals, and a final &#8211; can have a maximum of 3,500 spectators at a time &#8211; half of the expected number. At the same time, they must have a negative test result for coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year&#8217;s Eurovision Song Contest is scheduled for May 18-22 in Rotterdam. The Netherlands won the right to lead the competition after the victory of its performer Duncan Lawrence at Eurovision in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year, Ukraine will be represented at the event by the band Go_A with the song &#8220;SHUM&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eurovision is an annual song contest among the countries of the European Union. The competition has been held annually since 1956 and is one of the most popular non-sporting events in the world with an audience of up to 600 million spectators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia has been participating in the competition since 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=6974\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"6974\">Holding Eurovision in an Unusual Format Through a Pandemic!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Source: Ukrgate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch authorities allowed the audience to be present in the hall during the international song contest &#8220;Eurovision&#8221;, which will be held in May in Rotterdam. Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; May 1, 2021 &#8211; Ukraine Society and Culture &#8220;We welcome the decision of the Dutch government and the opportunity to invite fans to join [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3457,6081,6079,6080,2399],"class_list":["post-12991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukrainian-cultur","tag-eurovision","tag-hold","tag-netherlands-2","tag-spectators","tag-ukraine-gate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12993,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991\/revisions\/12993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}