Despite being on a major fault line, Iceland is actually not all that shakey itself - particularly across the whole island.

2016 worldwide sample https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Ma...

100 year 5+ of Iceland https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=62.319,-...

As for putting up with what one considers stupidity... depends just as much as what you are offered to do so and whether it actually makes sense for Europe to offer that in this case :).