Nobody can question the priorities of the President to commute or pardon.

For the victims it's extremely difficult but that's the way democracy works.

I didn't do anything wrong to anybody. The people need us and we offer. We are here for work.

The conditions will relate to asset sales in line with what the energy regulator has already proposed. The government wants the merger to go ahead to create a large energy group which controls both gas and power.

We'll see some companies taking the pinch from rising costs such as fuel. Some industries will be reporting lackluster earnings because of this.

This was the year to be in Europe, but the tables have now turned, and 2006 will be a different story.