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By Lorenzo Ferrari
The Eurovision Song Contest was created in 1956 to promote European integration through popular culture. The vote to determine which artist wins the competition is based on the preferences of a national jury and the public in each participating country.
This map, by Imgur user Guinev on Eurovision data, shows
from which nation came most of the points received by a given country over the past 60 years. As an example The UK got the most points from Ireland. Notably, there are some regional boundaries: Scandinavian, Balkan and former USSR countries tend to support each other almost systematically. Other solidarities come from bilateral relationships, often due to migrations, like Portuguese in France or Turks in Germany.
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