In the European Parliament committee meetings, we find ourselves discussing at length subtleties of the ETS market, detailed fishing agreements with third parties or various requirements for the labelling of various products, but we don't discuss at all the most important subject for our world - including our Union: the future. Yet we involuntarily shape this future by the sum of effects we generate through our small-impact, short-term decisions; and in the end it might not be the shape we desire.