The EU may finally find the new narrative which it has been missing for quite some time. Until fairly recently, however, the European Union seemed to be uninspired and apathetic, complacently letting its future drift by. Since last autumn, a many-headed (yet strangely toothless) monstrosity of a conference more or less unknown to the European public, has been debating the future of the EU with 800 randomly selected citizens, it is to be feared, few consequences.