Fact-checking: l'Eurovision Song Contest è stato creato dalla Nato?

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Fact-checking: l'Eurovision Song Contest è stato creato dalla Nato?  Utenti sui social media e alcune testate giornalistiche sostengono che vecchi documenti della Nato provano che l'Alleanza ha dato vita al concorso canoro europeo. Non è proprio così  ALTRE INFORMAZIONI : http://it.euronews.com/2025/05/22/fact-checking-leurovision-song-contest-e-stato-creato-dalla-nato  Abbonati, euronews è disponibile in 12 lingue.

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00:00Did NATO create the Eurovision Song Contest?

00:07Eurovision season is over for another year, but people are still talking about it,

00:12including claims online that the iconic Song Contest was created by NATO.

00:16Posts on social media and even some news outlets

00:19alleged that the military alliance wanted to use it to imperially exert its soft power.

00:24Some posts shared screenshots of a document from NATO's Committee on Information and Cultural Relations,

00:30dated November 1955, which refers to a North Atlantic festival.

00:34The document says that a performance could be a subtle way to push a pro-NATO narrative among the general population.

00:41However, while the document is authentic, it's been taken out of context.

00:45It and other NATO archives show us that the alliance did float the idea of a North Atlantic festival,

00:50but it was nothing like the Eurovision Song Contest.

00:53Instead, it was to take place on the sidelines of a military exhibition by the French army known as Les Nuits de l'Armée.

01:00Spontored by French magazine Paris Match.

01:02The idea was to showcase cultural military displays from different NATO members,

01:06such as a Scottish march to bagpipe music from the UK,

01:10a demonstration by Belgian police dogs and a changing of the guard by Canadian Mounties.

01:14The document mentions that the BBC suggested broadcasting the festival around Europe using the Eurovision network,

01:21owned by the EBU, but this isn't the same thing as the Eurovision Song Contest.

01:25The online claims appear based in part on the year the Song Contest was first held,

01:301956, the year after NATO published some of these documents.

01:34The Eurovision Song Contest website states that the idea for the network came from Marcel Besançon,

01:40director of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation,

01:42and that the idea for the contest came from Rai, Italy's national broadcaster.

01:46And ultimately, a NATO official and the ESC itself told Euroverify that the alliance played no role in the creation of the Song Contest.

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