Editorial – Message from the EMS President

[摘要] Any society’s life contains both climactic and anticlimactic periods. The year just concluded was full of majorevents but while the New Year promises many things welook forward to, it is day-to-day work that will providethe leitmotiv of the coming months. This includes theimplementation of the decisions taken at our councilmeeting in Berlin last Summer. To begin with, the society’s leadership has been substantially renewed. Withdeep gratitude for their devoted work, we part withFranco Brezzi and Martin Raussen and we wish successto Volker Mehrmann and Armen Sergeev who replacethem as the society’s vice-presidents. We also thank theother departing members of the Executive Committee: Alice Fialowski, Gert-Martin Greuel and LaurenceHalpern. We welcome the new members: Nicola Fusco,Stefan Jackowski, Vicente Muñoz, Beatrice Pelloni andBetül Tanbay.