The 10th edition (7th in English) of the "Schuman Report on Europe, the State of the Union 2016" has just been published and is now available in bookshops, on the Foundation's site and in digital version. It was presented to the European Parliament on 26th April in Brussels and on 28th to the Senate in Paris. Order your copy now!

Discussions between Athens and the representatives of the IMF, Eurogroup, the ECB and the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) started again on 25th April but were then suspended on 26th.

On 26th April the European Commission proposed a new approach in terms of support of refugees and displaced populations.

On 27th April, the European Commission published the report on the 17th round of negotiations over the agreement on the trade of services.

On 27th April Federica Mogherini presented the Union's new "integrated policy for the Arctic."

The European Central Bank published a report analysing financial integration in Europe on 25th April.

On 26th April the European Institute for Innovation and Technology awarded prizes to the best European innovators of the moment.

On 25th April in Hanover Angela Merkel organised a meeting with François Hollande, David Cameron, Matteo Renzi and Barack Obama to discuss the crises of the moment.

On 28th April the Croatian government promised to launch "difficult" economic reforms after having been reprimanded by the European Commission for the "excessive" imbalances in its economy.

On 26th April the King of Spain, Felipe VI, announced that the Spanish Parliament would be dissolved on 3rd May and that new parliamentary elections would take place on 26th June.

On 26th April Australia chose the French company DCNS, specialised in the naval defence industry to build 12 submarines.

The centre right party, Fine Gael, of outgoing Prime Minister Enda Kenny found support on 29th April with Fianna Fail to form a minority government.

Three former Polish presidents, Lech Walesa, Aleksander Kwasniewski and Bronislaw Komorowski, as well as other personalities, accused the party in office, Law and Justice, of destroying the constitutional order and called for the defence of democracy in Poland.

The OECD's Secretary General Angel Gurria warned on 27th April that if the Brexit should go a head there would be a loss of income for all Britons.

On 26th April Ukraine commemorated the 30th anniversary of the catastrophe in Chernobyl, the world's worst nuclear accident to ever occur.

Democracy and Human Rights are being threatened by the rise of populism and nationalism in Europe warned the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjørn Jagland on 27th April.

On 26th April the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned Turkey, deeming that the Alevi were the victims of "different treatment that was without objective, reasonable justification."

Economic growth accelerated in the 1st quarter of 2016, with the GDP rising by 0.5% in the EU and by 0.6% in the euro zone indicated the European Statistics Office Eurostat on 29th April.

Between 2011 and 2015 the share of women on European companies' executive boards almost doubled rising from 13.9% to 25% on average according to a publication by the EWB.

From 7th to 29th May the Brighton Festival will be hosting both British and international artists will be taking part in many events around the town.