Eurovision 2025: New changes ahead | What is Martin Green pinpointing about them

Everything that occurred during the Eurovision Song Contest of 2024 ignited a long course of new developments and changes. The new director of Eurovision, Martin Green highlighted them in an interview with The Euro Trip Podcast.

What is set to come in force?

The new regulations bear as their focal point the artists’ well-being and the aiming to cultivate a setting as satisfying and solidarity-driven as possible. More particularly, reduced media access to the rehearsals appears to be a key point, in order to eliminate any distractions for the contestants and for them to feel more comfortable on stage. In essence, this policy is said to follow the example of other major global events, in which Martin Green has much previous experience and in which, media access is more limited.

“This has all come from delegations and artists themselves asking to have more time to get more confident with their performances before the cameras are let it – and who can blame them?

In Eurovision there is unprecedented access. When we live our lives under constant access, we have to look closer at that for the wellbeing of the artists.”

Thus, there seems to be a clear plan about no-filming zones of the artists, to secure their safety and well-being.

In the meantime, the signing and adherence to a code of conduct will be mandatory, as an additional policy of reinforcing the participants’ security and protection. Any violations of this code will be revised by Martin Green, Martin Österdahl, members of the leadership group of the Eurovision Song Contes and of the Reference Group.

“Codes of conduct don’t work if it’s one strike and you’re out. There has to be process and discussion.

Eurovision is a friendly space and a community space.”

The regulations of the code of conduct, as well as the optimised rehearsal plan is scheduled to be unveiled by the EBU in the future.

What did he say about Martin Österdahl?

If there was one person who was highly critized about the incidents that took place in the 2024 Contest, that was Martin Österdahl, the Executive Supervisor. Martin Green appears positively adjacent to Österdahl, supporting him emotionally and practically.

“Martin has changed this contest into something unrecognisable from what it was – and only for the better. And for that he should only ever be applauded.”

The two had co-operated in the past and more specifically, at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023, when Martin Green was the Managing Director of BBC.

“Martin and I had a great relationship in Liverpool. I was on the other side of things.

My job now is to sit over the team and to run the whole team now, and hopefully to build the team.”

What do you think about the changes that are going to be introduced at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest?

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Source: The Euro Trip | Eurovision Podcast