I am referring to people such as Eamonn Gallagher, the former director-general of the European Commission and an EC ambassador to the United Nations; Emile Noël, the first and longest-serving secretary-general of the European Commission; Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, a judge in the European Court of Justice and the President of the European Court of Justice for a period; and Xavier de Roux, the editor of the European legal dictionary—the list of eminent legal authorities goes on and on.