Social movements present substantial differences between the EU and MENA region. However, they also display strong similarities within the Mediterranean region as a whole. By looking at the influence of young unemployment on the one hand, and nationalist discourses on the other, this article is aimed at explaining the possibility of considering Mediterranean uprisings as a consistent phenomenon.Thereby the first section of this article demonstrates that young unemployment is depicting the way of protest in the Mediterranean, blurring the lines between the Arab Spring and South European uprisings. It works as a transnational feature translated into similar spatial practices within the region. Nonetheless, further articulation of the movements depends on specific discourses embedded in historic differences. The last section shows the implications of Nationalist narrative. In this sense, European protests differ from MENA ones. They identify their problems as global while embracing a cosmopolitan discourse that is largely absent amongst Southern Mediterranean movements.