Mistrust amidst a political vacuum. The new Union for the Mediterranean (UFM) idea has been shorn of its unacceptable anti-EU aspects, only to leave a political vacuum and mistrust. The squabbles have died down but the outcome is so slender that one could be forgiven for wondering whether it was worth risking France and Germany coming to blows over it in the first place. The idea of a Union between countries bordering the Mediterranean was unacceptable as far as the EU was concerned, and did...