diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 50c11293..023ab0e1 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-future>=0.16.0
 pyparsing>=2.0.3
 unittest2>=1.1.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5e1e1e72..436e76d1 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
     author_email = "devel@sciunto.org",
     description  = "Bibtex parser for python 2.7 and 3.3 and newer",
     packages     = ['bibtexparser'],
-    install_requires = ['pyparsing>=2.0.3',
-                        'future>=0.16.0'],
+    install_requires = ['pyparsing>=2.0.3'],
     extra_requires = {'unittest': 'unittest2>=1.1.0'}
 )