“Is the EU fit for the Next Generation?”. This was the question asked at the 2022 State of the Union conference (read the European Union) organised by the European University Institute (EUI). As the keynote speaker, professor Kalypso Nicolaidis turned the occasion into a dialogue with EUI students and a conversation between her generation of baby boomers and generation Z. Boomers, hear the call of zoomers to “Decarbonise, Democratise, Decolonise!” Zoomers, hold boomers to account!