This tendency gathered steam following the World Trade Center attacks in 2001 and the subsequent coalitions to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. It does not focus on narrow academic debates, but gives a broad overview of the worrying developments related to the rise of the right in the recent decade. However, also cities like Zagreb (Croatia), Tirana (Albania), Sofia (Bulgaria), Lisbon (Portugal), Brussels (Belgium), and Basel (Switzerland) have an above-average level of earthquake risk compared to less exposed cities, such as Berlin (Germany), London (UK), or Paris (France).

This has been heightened by ‘the German perception that it foots the bills and assumes the burden of leadership’ (p.Throughout the last two decades, headlines from that newspaper have given editorial support to a variety of political campaigns premised on the stigmatisation of migrant offenders. A moderate earthquake in a densely populated part of Europe, or in an area that hosts critical infrastructures, like a pipeline, can have an enormous impact.

The North Anatolian Fault, one of the most active faults in the world, runs 20 km south of Istanbul.The average annual loss of life represents the expected number of fatalities per year, on average, due to damaged and collapsed buildings through earthquakes. For Brussels, Turkey’s intervention in EU territorial waters crosses a red line – a position that reflects the consensus among seven southern member states (Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, and Spain) as expressed in their strong condemnation of Turkey on the issue at the annual Med7 summit in June 2019.

An expansive investigation of the ways in which a newly configured right interconnects with anti-democratic and illiberal forces at the level of the state, Europe’s Fault Lines provides much-needed answers, revealing some uncomfortable truths. While Italy has long been among the strongest advocates of closer EU-Turkey relations, the Turkish intervention brought Italy closer to the Republic of Cyprus and Egypt on eastern Mediterranean energy matters. An expansive investigation of the ways in which a newly-configured right interconnects with anti-democratic and illiberal forces at the level of the state, Europe’s Fault Lines provides much-needed answers, revealing some uncomfortable truths. The main drivers of the earthquake risk are older buildings, high earthquake hazard, and urban areas.Much of this recent rise has been on the back of populist, anti-establishment rhetoric that mixes nativism with promises of economic protectionism, which is of course the formula that led Donald Trump to victory in the 2016 US presidential election. The most extreme example of increased authoritarianism from the supposedly liberal centre is, of course, the treatment of Greece at the hands of the Troika – the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund – which has reduced the country to a vassal state of the EU, forced into selling off much of its assets. Of course, in various parts of the EU, the extreme right is in power at a local or national level: Front National mayors in France; Jobbik mayors in Hungary; the Sweden Democrats in southern parts of the country (they are currently polling 18. and the ways in which centre and extreme-right politicians have used the language employed and normalised by the corporate media to create a climate of outrage and indignation, particularly at election time.