The European Parliament yesterday urged EU leaders meeting in Berlin to name their nominee for European Commission president following the shock resignation of the entire executive last week. The 626-member assembly, which toppled the Commission over fraud concerns, issued a resolution calling on the two day summit which starts today "as a matter of urgency to put forward their candidate for the position of president". Declining to set a deadline for naming the 20-member executive as a whole, the assembly asked the leaders "to put forward . . . a precise and reasonable calendar for dealing with the appointment of the new Commission".