Evangelos Aretaios

Evangelos Aretaios works in Brussels as a foreign desk correspondent for the Cyprus-based Politis Daily. Previously, he was based in Istanbul between 1999 and 2007 covering Turkey and the Middle East.

The Rojava revolution

People fighting for survival experiment with their own path to democracy in the Middle East. Not just another effort to carve out an ethnic niche, but to establish a multi-ethnic, multi-religious democracy.

By Evangelos Aretaios

/ 15 Mar 2015

The gardener, the grapes and the thorns: the backbone of Europe's future

Populism is now in an orbit of frontal collision with European and national institutions of democracy as developed today, demanding a reinvigoration of 'popular sovereignty.'

By Evangelos Aretaios

/ 7 Feb 2015

The gardener, the grapes and the thorns: the backbone of Europe's future

Populism is now in an orbit of frontal collision with European and national institutions of democracy as developed today, demanding a reinvigoration of 'popular sovereignty.'

By Evangelos Aretaios

/ 7 Feb 2015