The economic crisis is moving from the southern provinces of Europe north and if policies continue to be based on austerity and budgetary discipline, we will soon see social misery and, subsequently, unrest in northern Europe also.
While the southern, countries like Greece, Italy or Portugal, are by and large used to and capable of managing large scale difficulties such as malnutrition, even famine, lack of proper medical services, mass reduction of pensions and salaries, reduced security and many others effects of the crisis, northern societies are not.