Mediterranean fiction. There is nothing real about considering the countries around the Mediterranean as a single whole. The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) lumps together: - the Adriatic Sea with Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania; - the Asian shore with Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Israel; - and the North African shore with Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. These countries have nothing in common except the need to safeguard the Mediterranean from the threat of...