The initial response from the main UK parties to Sir Christopher Kelly's report on political finance has been lukewarm.
Labour has pledged itself to reform political finance, and is pondering the recommendations of an independent inquiry it established.
Under Germany's political-finance law, brought in by Mr Kohl himself in 1994, all parties have to present yearly accounts to parliament, along with a record of all contributions, however small, with donors' names and addresses.
But 527s must disclose the names of the fat cats who use them to finance political campaigns.
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Some admit they helped finance political parties off the books, which is illegal but common in Brazil.
With the start of testimony, government prosecutors began building a case against two bankers accused of siphoning money from their own financial institution to finance political contributions to then-Gov. Bill Clinton.
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The decision by Chief Justice John Roberts comes a year after the court caused an uproar with its Citizens United opinion broadening the rights of corporations to finance political campaigns.
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Even as the court was handing down its judgment on the retired Mr Dumas, two present-day Socialist politicians, Pierre Moscovici, minister for European affairs, and Claude Bartolone, minister for urban affairs, were being asked by France's newly-zealous investigating magistrates to testify about the past use of kickbacks on public-works contracts in the Paris region to finance political parties.
For example, political reporters love to write stories on campaign finance reform, political fundraising and insider strategy conflicts.
But Germany has a generous system of state finance of political parties.
It would permit a reasoned resolution of the serious disconnect that currently exists between most of the G-7 political leaders and their finance ministers, indicated in the statement issued by the latter from the OECD ministerial held earlier this month.
Finance ministers and political officials in Europe have again and again come up with plan to fix the debt crisis.
Each university will have an incentive to run an efficient and professional rating process, providing a real-world training lab for undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of backgrounds (economics, computer engineering, political science, law, finance).
Nonetheless, the meeting seems to be an indication that the captains of finance and their political counterparts are concerned about issues such as national savings rates, regulatory hurdles to doing business in the U.S. and corporate governance.
"These groups foster violence and instability...in an attempt to advance their political agendas, and largely finance their operations through the illicit drug trade, " Rodney Benson, chief of intelligence for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, said in congressional testimony last year.
In Europe, euro-zone finance officials and Greek political leaders agreed on a new bailout and debt restructuring for the Mediterranean country.
One victim of Mr Martin's political weakness may be the former finance minister's famous fiscal discipline: federal spending last year rose by a worrying 15%.
There are signs that such a plan is being conceived by the finance ministry, with political and central-bank support, though the plan still looks somewhat meek.
German social media broadcasted the political document from the Minister of Finance, Schauble to the Parliament chief, about the plan of shrinking the Cypriot banking system to the national level of Cyprus, which clearly states the removal of foreign deposits, destroying what has been built over so many years.
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UN's members to agree to a specific plan, and then to finance it, is a political minefield.
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Overall, ministers judge that the political benefits from reforming local-government finance are low and the costs are high.
In other countries, the process is often quite streamlined: a Ministry of Finance, which makes the political decision, a Treasury Department, which houses the professional staff for the ministry, and an Inland Revenue Service, which administers the tax system and is sometimes actively involved in policy formation.
Dr. Sylvain Charat is a graduate from the University of the Sorbonne, Paris, was chief political adviser of a former French Minister of Finance in the French National Assembly, and is now a public affairs consultant, specializing in the welfare system.
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Everton says that in conjunction with the new feature of the app, the company will start reaching out to legislators' campaign and finance directors, as well as political parties, to make them aware of Visible Vote's potential for politicians to connect with voters.
For example, Roberts wrote a narrow opinion in 2007 holding that the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law did not apply to certain political advertisements in Wisconsin.
The debate now raging in the Diet and within political parties, is not just about how to finance the costs of old age social programs, but also about the morality of allowing lavish spending on old people to create a burden for their children and grandchildren.
The IRS had little interest in 501(c)(4) political activities until the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform.
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In Europe there will no doubt be heavy political pressures to use the mobile-phone windfalls to finance extra spending.
The 25-year-old, who graduated in 2003 from the University of Virginia with a degree in arts and political science, is far removed from the world of finance.
Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin told a gathering of political appointees and economists at the Peterson Institute for International Economics last week that Russia was not complacent in the Putin years.
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