Tens of millions of euros for a controversial music contest
Eurovision, the highly controversial European music contest, continues to attract interest and consume a lot of money. Voters in the Swiss city of Basel have approved funding of almost 40 million euros to host the annual Eurovision 2025 television show in their city. Provisional results of the vote show that 66.4% of voters in the northern Swiss city are in favor of using taxpayers and #39; money - 34.96 million Swiss francs (37.4 million euros) - to host the show.