Two senior EU officials, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn, met with His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in a visit to the Phanar in Istanbul, Turkey on Friday, April 11, 2008. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Barroso discussed Turkey’s resistance to reopen a the Orthodox seminary of Halki that was shut down more than two decades ago despite pressure from the EU and the U.S.