This study intends to shed light on the internal linguistic hybridity of English as a European lingua franca. Based on typological considerations relating to Europeanness, it explores the heterogeneity exhibited by relativisation practices in European ELF talk. An overview of central theoretical aspects in research on the status of English in Europe highlights the tension between work that – inspired by the Kachruvian World Englishes framework – aims at studying structural features to test the plausibility of “Euro-English” as a variety and work that places a stronger focus on functional aspects of ELF – a research strand that has gained much greater momentum in recent years. The empirical part presents an in-depth study of relativisation in European ELF, using data from Eurovision Song Contest press conferences. The analysis tests the impact of six variables on relativiser choice quantitatively: syntactic function of relativiser, humanness of antecedent, L1 background, active speaker participation, European region and EU status. Relativisation practices of European ELF speakers turn out to be subject to a whole range of influences that contest the notion of a Euro-English variety. The results rather suggest a processual conceptualisation of variation as influenced by competing linguistic ideologies and document the presence of European prototypicality effects.