Bongiovanni's message should be heeded, especially in Brussels, Berlin, and Paris. Francesco Bongiovanni returns with a sequel to "The Decline and the Fall of Europe," a book that Guardian journalist Nils Pratley labeled 'a wake-up call for the twenty-first century.' Since 2012, Europe has been confronted with new, unexpected game-changing challenges such as the refugee crisis and its human tsunami, the surprise of Brexit, and the explosion of 'alternative' politics. Europeans have finally come to realize that the open societies they have been comfortably living in are under threat and fragmenting, leaving their survival uncertain. Minorities are falling prey to an Islamist ideology that conveys values and customs diametrically opposed to European ones. Terrorist acts have become the 'new normal.'.