Shifting EU Institutional Reform into High Gear. Report of the CEPS High-Level Group. CEPS Task Force Reports

To contribute to the important debate on EU institutional reform in the run-up to the European Parliament elections and the start of a new Commission, CEPS formed a High-Level Group on EU Institutional Reform under the leadership of Danuta Hübner MEP and member of the CEPS Board of Directors. The report of this distinguished group of MEPs, former and current EU institutional members and leading scholars on EU law and institutional affairs focuses on reforms that could be taken within the framework of the current treaties to build a more responsive and accountable Union. The report analyses the main inter- and intra-institutional weaknesses in terms of efficiency, democracy and differentiation and puts forward a number of recommendations addressing issues such as the reorganisation of the College of Commissioners, the promotion of strategic legislative planning, the enhancement of the role of the EP and the rotating Presidency of the Council, the improvement of the democratic accountability of the European Council and the adequate engagement of the national parliaments.

Communaute Europeenne du Charbon et de l'Acier, Haute Autorite. Memento de Statistiques. Edition 1958 = European Coal and Steel Community, High Authority. Memento of Statistics. Edition 1958

Charbon; statistiques sociales

Communaute Europeenne du Charbon et de l'Acier, Haute Autorite. Memento de Statistiques. Edition 1957 = European Coal and Steel Community, High Authority. Memento of Statistics. Edition 1957

Charbon; siderurgie; statistiques generales

Communaute Europeenne du Charbon et de l'Acier, Haute Autorite. Memento de Statistiques. Edition 1956 = European Coal and Steel Community, High Authority. Memento of Statistics. Edition 1956

Charbon; siderugie

Communaute Europeenne du Charbon et de l'Acier, Haute Autorite. Memento de Statistiques. Edition 1955 = European Coal and Steel Community, High Authority. Memento of Statistics. Edition 1955

Charbon; siderurgie; statistiques generales

Communaute Europeenne du Charbon et de l'Acier, Haute Autorite. Memento de Statistiques. Edition 1954 = European Coal and Steel Community, High Authority. Memento of Statistics. Edition 1954

Charbon; siderurgie; statistiques generales

Prospective longitudinal study of subcortical brain volumes in individuals at high familial risk of mood disorders with or without subsequent onset of depression

Subcortical volumetric brain abnormalities have been observed in mood disorders. However, it is unknown whether these reflect adverse effects predisposing to mood disorders or emerge at illness onset. Magnetic resonance imaging was conducted at baseline and after two years in 111 initially unaffected young adults at increased risk of mood disorders because of a close family history of bipolar disorder and 93 healthy controls (HC). During the follow-up, 20 high-risk subjects developed major depressive disorder (HR-MDD), with the others remaining well (HR-well). Volumes of the lateral ventricles, caudate, putamen, pallidum, thalamus, hippocampus and amygdala were extracted for each hemisphere. Using linear mixed-effects models, differences and longitudinal changes in subcortical volumes were investigated between groups (HC, HR-MDD, HR-well). There were no significant differences for any subcortical volume between groups controlling for multiple testing. Additionally, no significant differences emerged between groups over time. Our results indicate that volumetric subcortical brain abnormalities of these regions using the current method appear not to form familial trait markers for vulnerability to mood disorders in close relatives of bipolar disorder patients over the two-year time period studied. Moreover, they do not appear to reduce in response to illness onset at least for the time period studied.