The third edition of the Atlas of the European Union is a work of reference which presents the Union, its institutions, each of the 28 Member States and a new feature - their overseas territories, via their history, their culture and their reality.

On 12th April the IMF published a pessimistic review of the world's economy, noting that growth would be 3.2% in 2016 and 3.5% in 2017. In the euro zone it would be 1.5% in 2016 and 1.6% in 2017.

On 12th April the Commission adopted its assessment of the Greek authorities' action plan on the country's shortcomings in the management of its external borders.

On 12th April the European Commission published its quarterly spring review on the social situation and employment in the EU.

On 14th April MEPs adopted successively the directive on the regulation of passenger data use, 461 votes in support, 179 against and 9 abstentions and the new European measures on data protection.

The 28 Foreign Affairs Ministers who met on 18th April spoke of the need to strengthen their work in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean, the two main migratory routes at present. They expressed their satisfaction at the arrival of the Council of the Presidency in Libya on 30th March. They gave details of the "real projects" that will support the new government of national unity in the economic and security areas. Finally they discussed the Eastern Partnership.

The European regulation authorities deemed on 13th April that the agreement between the EU and the USA regarding personal data was far from satisfactory.

On Thursday 14th April the Irish Parliament did not succeed in coming to agreement over a government for the country. This was the third investiture debate the Assembly had held since the elections on February 26th. Neither the outgoing Prime Minister Enda Kenny nor his direct rival, Micheál Martin (Fianna Fáil), leader of the opposition succeeded in forming a vital consensus for any investiture. Putting a government together remains difficult. The Labour Party seems to have some reservations about renewing its participation in the government coalition and opposes the investiture of a minority government led by Enda Kenny.

On 11th April the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg inaugurated the Robert Schuman Institute for European Affairs at the University of Luxembourg.

The Central Electoral Committee of the Netherlands published the official results of the consultative referendum on the EU-Ukraine Agreement on 12th April (61% against and 38.21% in support).

On 15th April the campaign in view of the referendum on 23rd June was launched. The British Electoral Commission appointed "The In Campaign" to lead the campaign in support of staying in the EU and the "Vote Leave" to undertake that advocating Britain's exit.

Since 13th April in Skopje demonstrators have been protesting against the Macedonian President's decision to grant amnesty to political figures involved in an illegal phone tapping scandal, and against the decision to organise a snap election on 5th June.

The American army denounced the manoeuvres of Russian fighter planes over the Baltic Sea, likewise the Polish spokesperson at the Polish Defence Ministry on 18th April.

The appointment of the leader of the Ukrainian Parliament, Volodymyr Groïsman as the new Prime Minister of Ukraine was approved on 14th April by Parliament.

On 13th April the Council of Europe adopted the guidelines aiming to ensure the protection of the freedom of the press and the safety of journalists in the 47 Member States.

2015 figures relative to Public Development Aid published by the OECD on 13th April place 19 EU Member in the Development Aid Committee (DAC) of the OECD as the "first donors" in 2015 (73.5 billion $) ahead of the USA (31.5 billion $).

The euro zone and EU's annual inflation rates lay at 0% in March 2016, against -0.2% and -0.1% respectively in February.

Dan Hamilton and Jo Quinlan have published their study on the transatlantic economy 2016 laying out in detail the investments and trade flows between the USA and the EU.

Until 18th July the Orangerie Museum in Paris is hosting an exhibition "Apollinaire, the vision of the poet", in reference to the period during which Guillaume Apollinaire was an art critic.