http://dir.salon.com/topics/europe/?source=rss&aim=europe en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT By Tom Vanderbilt Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/08/14/driving_on_left/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/08/14/driving_on_left/index.html?source=rss For the first time in ages, a country is switching to driving on the left. Should we all drive on the same side? By Spiegel staff Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/10/palau/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/10/palau/index.html?source=rss Seventeen Guantánamo inmates of Uighur origin may soon be leaving Cuba for Palau. By Michael Lind Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/09/populist_backlash/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/09/populist_backlash/index.html?source=rss The right just won all across Europe, thanks to nationalism, populism and recession. It could happen here too. By Cary Tennis Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/06/03/backpacker/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/06/03/backpacker/index.html?source=rss I've adventured and gotten writing gigs and fallen in love with cities, but failure dogs me! Can I just go home? By Andrew Curry Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/05/27/profiling/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/05/27/profiling/index.html?source=rss A new study finds the tactic is worse than useless in combating terrorism. By Kevin Berger Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/03/20/rick_steves/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/03/20/rick_steves/index.html?source=rss He may seem like Mister Rogers. But in a revealing interview, the travel guru shares his daring views on Iran and terrorism, spoiled Americans and the best places to smoke pot in Europe. By Andrew Leonard Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/01/17/chinese_way_of_transgenic_rice/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/01/17/chinese_way_of_transgenic_rice/index.html?source=rss Are Asians less fearful of genetically modified organisms than Europeans? By Cary Tennis Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/10/29/the_european/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/10/29/the_european/index.html?source=rss I'm full of ideas, and my company headquarters is there. By Gary Kamiya Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/07/22/rome/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/07/22/rome/index.html?source=rss The Eternal City is too vast and ancient to grasp, and the harder you try, the more it slips away. So you have to dream your way into it. By Andrew Leonard Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/07/03/immigrants_and_the_baby_bust/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/07/03/immigrants_and_the_baby_bust/index.html?source=rss What happens to a society with a declining birth rate which refuses to open the door to outsiders? By Gregor Peter Schmitz Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/07/01/obama_eu_visit/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/07/01/obama_eu_visit/index.html?source=rss Many Europeans would like to see him as the next U.S. president. But a transatlantic trip to burnish his credentials will be a balancing act. By Ulrike Knöfel, Frank Hornig and Bernhard Zand Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/06/09/skyscraper/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/06/09/skyscraper/index.html?source=rss A building frenzy is raging in Asia, Russia and the Persian Gulf. And cities like New York don't have the money to compete. Will the West soon look outdated? By Cary Tennis Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/02/28/europe/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/02/28/europe/index.html?source=rss Could I really be blowing the definitive period of my college life? By Catherine Price Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/02/19/white_babies/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/02/19/white_babies/index.html?source=rss That is, of course, only if you're white. By Peter Alsop Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/food/eat_drink/2008/02/16/truffle_farming/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/food/eat_drink/2008/02/16/truffle_farming/index.html?source=rss A new crop of American dreamers are betting the farm on truffles, which Europeans have savored like sex for ages. But can the Yanks get the mysterious mushrooms to grow? By Catherine Price Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/01/22/npr_immigration/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/01/22/npr_immigration/index.html?source=rss NPR's Sylvia Poggioli launches a six-part series about European Muslims. By Joe Conason Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/12/29/obama_europe/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/12/29/obama_europe/index.html?source=rss The senator may have traveled widely, but the critically important subcommittee on Europe has languished under his leadership. By Katharine Mieszkowski Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/11/30/dirt_on_clean/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/11/30/dirt_on_clean/index.html?source=rss The messy history of cleanliness, and why our obsession with dirt may be making us sick. By Mark Danner Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/10/18/aznar_bush/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/10/18/aznar_bush/index.html?source=rss A new transcript reveals the president, on the brink of the Iraq invasion, full of faith, calm and unyielding optimism. By Andrew Leonard Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/06/26/wine_ethanol/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/06/26/wine_ethanol/index.html?source=rss Europe has too much wine. But does converting the excess into biofuel make even drunken sense? By Gregory Levey Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/06/15/sarkozy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/06/15/sarkozy/index.html?source=rss Can France's new president -- and the next American one -- begin to reverse the damage of the Bush era? By Sidney Blumenthal Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/06/14/bush_foreign_policy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/06/14/bush_foreign_policy/index.html?source=rss The president's trip was a pageant of disdain, delusion and provocation masquerading as a respite from his troubles at home. By Jytte Klausen Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/05/29/danish_cartoons/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/05/29/danish_cartoons/index.html?source=rss Danish politics lurched right as the scandal provoked Muslims worldwide. But now Danes are fed up with their own "Bush-lite" -- and are backing a Muslim immigrant. By Cary Tennis Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/01/29/russian_husband/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/01/29/russian_husband/index.html?source=rss I am a New Yorker living like a prisoner in London. By Kim Rahir Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/02/03/cartoon_jihad/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/02/03/cartoon_jihad/index.html?source=rss Explosive caricatures of Mohammed saw little fallout in Scandinavia, but will they unleash a new wave of riots in France's restive Muslim enclaves?