Donatan & Cleo representing Poland perform for the Grand Final of the 59th annual Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen, Denmark, May 9, 2014 | EPA Behave, Poland. Or you’ll be kicked out of Eurovision! European Broadcasting Union monitoring controversial changes to Polish media laws.

The Polish government's moves to exert greater control over public media could lead to the country being barred from the Eurovision Song Contest.

The European Broadcasting Union, which organizes the yearly song contest, said it was monitoring changes to Poland's media laws. “If they breach the statutes of the EBU, we will have a problem with them,” its president, Jean-Paul Philippot, told the Financial Times. He warned Tuesday that Poland even could be kicked out of the organization, and therefore out of Eurovision.

The EBU is made up of public broadcasters from across the Continent. Only EBU members are allowed to take part in the song contest.

The EBU has already warned Poland about its conduct. "To preserve the integrity and independence of public service media as a symbol of a free and democratic country, we ask you in the strongest possible terms not to sign this measure into law," Ingrid Deltenre, the EBU's director general, wrote to Polish President Andrzej Duda in December.

The European Commission’s first vice president, Frans Timmermans, sent Warsaw two letters asking for clarification after Poland’s new ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) moved to put Polish public TV and radio broadcasters under direct government control.

The government responded Tuesday, saying the Commission had made“unjustified” accusations and blamed the dispute on “left-wing” political motivations.

Jacek Kurski, the new chief of Polish public television and a former PiS politician who called himself a “bull terrier” for his devotion to the party, isn’t a big fan of the recent direction of Eurovision.

He has denounced contest winner Conchita Wurst as an example of “cultural aggression, of forcing through a social model of gender choice. This isn’t tasteful that a guy puts on a dress and then glues on a beard. That isn’t watchable.”

Kurski also denounced Wurst as a “homo-unknown, which won a contest and was a display attacking elementary good taste and the principle of the Polish family.”

Poland’s 2014 entry into the contest was likely much more along the lines of Kurski’s tastes. It was a number called “We are Slavic” featuring buxom lasses dressed in traditional Polish peasant outfits provocatively churning butter and scrubbing laundry.

The song came in 14th.

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