EU flags can be handed out to viewers members at this weekend’s Eurovision Tune Contest last by activists staging an anti-Brexit protest.
The Liverpool for Europe group has secured some 75,000 EU flags for the ultimate and hopes these can be flown all through the occasion.
This yr’s last is being hosted by Liverpool on behalf of Ukraine, which received the occasion final yr amid Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unlawful invasion.
It is going to be proven on the BBC and different TV networks with hundreds of thousands of individuals within the UK and throughout the globe anticipated to tune in for the massively well-liked occasion.
Liverpool for Europe hopes to duplicate the scenes witnessed on the Final Evening of the Proms on the Royal Albert Corridor in London in 2019, when activists waved EU flags and a few donned blue berets.
“On Saturday, when the viewers can be at its largest, we’re going to get as many flags inside as doable,” one activist advised The Every day Mail.
“Liverpool is an anti-Brexit metropolis, and we wish that message to return throughout.”
Eurovision guidelines state that small flags could be taken into the Liverpool Enviornment.
Protesters wave EU flags throughout Final evening of the Proms
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A senior Whitehall official mentioned the most important concern was the potential hacking of the voting system like final yr, when police in Italy, the place the competition was staged, mentioned the Killnet hacker group focused the primary semi-final and grand last.
Graham Norton and Ukrainian singer Julia Sanina will host Saturday’s last.
The occasions on the Liverpool Enviornment will welcome 37 nations this yr, versus 40 in 2022.
Nations that won’t make an look embrace North Macedonia, Bulgaria and Montenegro, in addition to Russia for a second yr working.
Russia was banned from competing in 2022 following its invasion of Ukraine.
The banning determination was upheld by the European Broadcasting Union for 2023.