Brussels, 23/11/2004 (Agence Europe) - Opening the academic year of the College of Europe in Bruges on 23 November, President Barroso spoke of the role of knowledge and education, and the "unique role" of the Commission. My Commission has had "far greater support than most of our governments manage to obtain from their national parliaments", he said, adding: it remains to be seen how we can reconcile the possibility of the EP holding individual hearings for the Commissioners and the need to approve the Commission as a College. He concluded with a reference to Jacques Delors, who said that "the Commission can neither be the Secretariat of the Council, nor the executive of the European Parliament".