No authority? Heck, you must be aware that I'm a wonderful, fantastic, superb example of the human race and have the utmost authority to speak as I find. I also had an invitation to join MENSA but I decided not to.....

As to levels of intelligence, it seems to be sadly lacking when considering EU proposals/directives.

I think Jean Monnet gave the game away when he said what he did and I see someone has edited the page about him on Wiki. They must have thought some of the things previously there were a bit too near the truth?