The international press has written extensively about the removal of Romania from Eurovision this year.
Foreign journalists note that TVR’s huge debt affects the financial stability of the European Broadcasting Union.
The foreign media who wrote about the situation in our country include BBC, Financial Times, DW.com.
Romania will not participate in this year's Eurovision edition because of debts that the Romanian Television has to pay to the competition organizers.
According to official information, the public television debt amounts to approximately 10 million euro.
The most recent payment made by TVR to the contest organizers was in January, but only a tiny amount of the total debt, respectively 250,000 lei.
Eurovision Song Contest will be held in 2016, in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10, 12 and 14 May.
Romania would have participated in the second semifinal of the competition, of 12 May, along with Albania, Bulgaria, Denmark, Georgia, Slovenia, Norway, Ukraine, Belgium, Latvia, Belarus, Ireland, Switzerland, Macedonia, Australia, Lithuania, Poland, Israel and Serbia.
Ovidiu Anton should have represented Romania at Eurovision with the song "Moment of Silence" after winning the national selection competition held Sunday at Baia Mare.
In the in the Eurovision Romania final, the audience was the one who chose whom to send to Stockholm by televoting.