This budget is unreal. This is an election budget.

It is all well and good for the minister to come and to brag and to gloat about a 66.66 percent increase, but what the minister has not told us is how much the inflation rate has raced along by.

It's going to take a lot of pushing and shoving in the U.S. and Europe to get the concessions from rich countries that will keep poor countries involved in the negotiations.

He's the right guy for the right moment,

He's been preparing for this moment for along time.

Who knows where the skeletons are in the closets of (WTO) member states better than Pascal Lamy?