Eurovision 2025: Emmy prepares to take flight, while host city Basel brings in extra armed police

Flemish Red Sebastian will represent Belgium on stage at the Eurovision Song Contest in Basel on Tuesday evening. Because he is good friends with Claude, they were on stage together earlier this week. Reporter Max van den Broek speaks to the Belgian about the bond he has with our Dutch artist.

In addition to approximately 1,300 police officers, members of the Swiss army and federal police, as well as security forces from neighboring countries Germany and France, were additionally called up for the duration of the Eurovision event.

Eurovision 2025: Emmy prepares to take flight, while host city Basel brings in extra armed police

The Swiss city of Basel has increased video surveillance and drafted in armed forces from other jurisdictions as the 69th Eurovision Song Contest kicks off this week.

CHRONIQUE. With Eurovision, the French media will probably discover our Rhine city in the coming days. It is however exciting and nestled in the Hexagon of curiosity and a certain candour are guessed in the few words of the information site that the French sulphurist journalist Jean-Marc Morandini owes to him: "Bâle becomes the central point of the Eurovision, but the city did not wait for the greatest telecrochet in the world to make a name for…

Strong contingent from RTÉ dispatched to Basel for Eurovision

RTE is fielding an 18-person delegation to the Eurovision song contest in the swanky town of Basel, Switzerland.  The Montrose contingent includes a member of RTE’s wardrobe department, press officers, and of course some higher management at the national broadcaster. Ireland’s entry Emmy is set to take to the stage in the semi-final rounds of the annual song fest this week with hopes she can break the nation’s long run of abysmal luck at Eurovis…

The Basel City is the final edition of the 2025 competition. The German Nemo won last year in Sweden with the song “The Code”. About 1,300 Swiss police will be in charge of Basel this week. Protestants could visit Basel during the week of the Eurovision Competition, since Israel's participation in this music competition continues to generate anger at the fund of the Gaza War, writes The Independent. The Basel City is the 2025 edition of the cont…