In Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog, which is essentially one village split between the Netherlands and Belgium in the messiest way possible, I think it's based on where the front door is

Frisia! It's a province of the Netherlands and I think their language is the closest one to English

Funny how Norway is there even though it's not even in the EU

ï, ö, ü, ä as well (as a diaeresis, not an umlaut)

Nikki de Jager (who was supposed to be the spokesperson) said on TV that it didn't feel right to hand out points. The Dutch broadcaster then told the EBU to just figure it out themselves.
Käärijä (Finland) also stepped down but got replaced, and Alessandra (Norway) already stepped down earlier because of Isreal.

Highlights from the Dutch broadcast (paraphrased):

• "The EBU reminded us that we're contractually obligated to do this broadcast."
• "Instead of the Netherlands we skip to Isreal, good thing they are completely uncontroversial."
• "Everyone makes mistakes, the EBU also knows a lot about that."

Maybe they're Dutch, there it's only done for words that end in a vowel. Probably not though.

Also a thing in the Netherlands!

He has a bunch of English ones on his website as well. Some of them are just the dumbest, least translatable puns though (in a good way).

For this one the joke even only works in Flemish (not Dutch).

Sometimes you just have to feed the canal, you know?

nailed by Gideon van Meijeren in the parliament

So, you get your news from the FvD youtube channel?

Unrelated, but it's kind of weird that !politics@lemmy.world is US politics even though there's nothing American about lemmy.world