Report from the EMS Council Meeting, Berlin, 16–17 July 2016

[摘要] The EMS Council is our society’s governing body andmeets every two years, most recently in 2014 in Donostia/San Sebastián, Spain. When the year coincides with a European Congress of Mathematics (ECM), as happenedthis Summer, the council meeting traditionally immediately precedes the ECM. Thus, on 16–17 July 2016, 82 delegates gathered with 17 guests at Humboldt Universityin sunny Berlin, to hear reports, debate motions and holdelections, as well as to set the direction of our society forthe coming years.