Nutsa Buzaladze from Georgia performs "Fire Fighter" on stage at the final of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) 2024 in the Malmo Arena. The motto of the world's biggest singing competition is "United ...
Europe is celebrating its flag: Twelve golden stars, explicitly, and in contrast to some national flags, not representing member states or units but "the ideals of unity, solidarity and harmony among ...
Fans attending the Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland, will be allowed to wave the European flag, the organisers have confirmed, reversing a highly controversial ban that last year ...
To be a European is to have learned from history that what starts off as patriotic fervour can, under the wrong kind of pressure, curdle into something far uglier. Most Europeans thus treat the flags ...