During the early stages of the EU crisis, most threats to the survival of the Continental bloc came from its periphery. Back then the prevailing fear was that financial disaster in a southern member state — a default in Greece or Portugal, for example — could precipitate the eurozone's collapse, hurting northern nations such as Germany and the Netherlands in the process. Though the possibility still exists, a sort of inverse threat has emerged. Today, the steady rise of anti-establishment and Euroskeptic sentiments in Northern Europe, as exemplified in Austria and Germany, threatens the Continent's south. In Austria's first round of presidential elections, held April 24, voters demonstrated the extent of their dissatisfaction with traditional parties. For the first time since the early 1950s, the country's president will not be a member of the traditional center-left Social Democrats or the conservative People's Party.