Voters in the Swiss city of Basel on Sunday comfortably approved putting nearly $40 million into hosting the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, according to intermediate results shortly after the polls closed.

Första resultaten: Klartecken för Eurovision

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Stockholm

Stockholm County

Sweden

First result: Clearly for Eurovision

Basel stimmt über Steuergelder für Song Contest ab

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Vienna

Austria

Basel votes on tax money for Song Contest

The first result of the referendum in Switzerland's Basel makes clear the funding of the Eurovision song contest instead next year.

De första resultaten i folkomröstningen i schweiziska Basel ger klartecken för finansieringen av Eurovision song contest i staden nästa år.

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The majority in the Swiss city of Basel have voted for continued financial support for Eurovision when the song contest is held in the city, writes AFP.

Flertallet i den sveitsiske byen Basel har stemt for fortsatt økonomisk støtte til Eurovision når sangkonkurransen avholdes i byen, skriver AFP.

Folkeavstemning i Basel: Flertall for økonomisk støtte til Eurovision

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Oslo

Norway

Referendum in Basel: Majority in favor of financial support for Eurovision

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Switzerland

Basel voters approve funding for Eurovision 2025 with big majority: early results

Today, Sunday 24 November, residents of Basel will head to the polls to vote on funding Eurovision 2025.   Basel was selected by the Swiss Broadcaster SRG SSR and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) as the host of Eurovision 2025. This followed Nemo's win for Switzerland at the 2024 Contest.   Why are they voting?  In September, the Basel-Stadt Grand Council voted in favour of funding the event to the tune of 37 million francs (around 62 milli…

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What's the deal with this Basel referendum on Eurovision 2025?

On the initiative of a Christian fundamentalist splinter party, the people of Basel will vote on Sunday on the financing of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) 2025. Opponents criticize a "pure waste" of public money for a "blasphemous" music event. Basel has budgeted subsidies of 35 million Swiss francs (37.6 million euros) for the competition. If the referendum is successful, the event in May 2025 would have to be significantly smaller.

Auf Initiative einer christlich-fundamentalistischen Splitterpartei stimmen die Baseler am Sonntag über die Finanzierung des Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) 2025 ab. Die Gegner kritisieren eine "pure Verschwendung" öffentlicher Gelder für eine "blasphemische" Musikveranstaltung. Basel hat Zuschüsse in Höhe von 35 Millionen Schweizer Franken (37,6 Millionen Euro) für den Wettbewerb eingeplant. Hat das Referendum Erfolg, müsste das Event im Mai 2025…

Basel stimmt über die Zukunft des Song Contests 2025 ab

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Salzburg

Basel votes on the future of the 2025 Song Contest

The first results of the referendum in Basel, Switzerland, give the go-ahead for the funding of the Eurovision Song Contest in the city next year.

De första resultaten i folkomröstningen i schweiziska Basel ger klartecken för finansieringen av Eurovision Song Contest i staden nästa år.

Basel voters approve funding for Eurovision 2025 with big majority: early results

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