Not counting two world wars originating in the midst of Europe there have been a lot of "movements" that has scared the shit out of middle class europeans:
communism
suffragets (femminism)
emancipation
secularization
unions
collapse of imperialism
Cold War (nuclear threat)
IRA
RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion - Baader-Meinhof Group )
ETA (Basque National Liberation Movement)
Skinheads
Neo-fascists
Breakdown of the Iron Curtain
EU-extension to eastern europe (mass immigration of poor people)
Saddam Hussein
Muammar Gaddafi
Argentina (Falkland Islands - Islas Malvinas)
Ayatollah Khomein
Soviet
Putin
China
In essence - we, the europeans are allways afraid of something, because we are so meek, humble, submissive and tolerant!







