Between rhetoric and ingenuousness. There is something rhetorical, and even slightly ingenuous, in the EU's attitude towards Mediterranean third countries. At the time of the Arab Spring, everything was rose-tinted: freedom, democracy and social justice were a done deal. Then, the results of the elections cast something of a shadow, because in them, a very considerable majority of the protagonists of this Spring voted in favour of movements representing (in radical fashion, some of them)...