Importance of the timetable. The EU absolutely needs to prevent any delay to the new European Commission taking up its duties. The timetable has been laid down: vote at the European Parliament at its plenary session on 22 October, the new team led by Jean-Claude Juncker takes up office on 1 November. Any postponement would extend the life of the current Commission, which would then the responsible for taking position on the draft national budgets of the member states for 2015; it would make no...