Katoikos.eu

Katoikos.eu
Type Online magazine
Owner(s) Katoikos S.L. SL
Founder(s) José-Luis Herrero, Georgios Kostakos
Publisher José-Luis Herrero, Georgios Kostakos
Editor-in-chief Georgios Kostakos
Founded 2014
Website katoikos.eu

Katoikos.eu is a web-based magazine with a newspaper format. It provides commentary, analysis and cartoons on international affairs from a European and cosmopolitan perspective.

It was launched in 2014. According to its founders, the goal is to reach normal citizens across Europe, get them interested in European affairs in the largest possible sense, and encourage them to engage in horizontal dialogue.[1]

Name

The publication's title derives from the Greek word katoikos, which means resident or inhabitant, in this case of the EU.[1]

Organisation

Katoikos.eu was launched in 2014 by José-Luis Herrero and Georgios Kostakos as a Madrid-based private company (Katoikos SL). Until October 2016, it had two parallel editions, one in English and one in Spanish. Since then it is published only in English, with occasional articles in other European languages, including Spanish, French and German. The publication claims financial independence, also from the EU institutions.

Content

Katoikos.eu acquired notoriety with its interview of former Icelandic interior minister Ögmundur Jónasson, which went viral in December 2016 after it was tweeted by WikiLeaks[2] and picked up among others by RT (TV network),[3] Daily Mail Online.[4] In the interview, among other things Mr. Jónasson refers to FBI efforts to frame Julian Assange of WikiLeaks.

The publication features its "home-grown" cartoonist, Pascal Hansens, who has developed his own recognisable style that combines dark humour and political astuteness.

Katoikos.eu authors and their opinion pieces range from the free and unconventional to the constructively critical from inside the establishment. It is a place where different but interesting and knowledgeable people meet to express their views on the politics of the EU and its neighbourhood, but also cinema and daily life.

References

  1. 1 2 "About us". 2016-12-11. Retrieved 2017-07-04.
  2. ↑ @wikileaks (9 December 2016). "The Obama administration sent a 'plane load of FBI agents' to frame Julian Assange. Iceland kicked them out" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. ↑ "FBI sent planeload of agents to frame Assange in Iceland, got snubbed by minister". 10 December 2016.
  4. ↑ "Former Icelandic minister claims US sent 'planeload of FBI agents to frame Julian Assange' during mission to the country in 2011". 11 December 2016.

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