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Articles "The Lisbon Strategy or a Lisbon Tragedy?"   By Ugnius Trumpa, President, LFMI, http://www.euobserver.com/ , 2005 05 19 "The Worm Turns"   By Guoda Steponaviciene, Vice-president, LFMI; http://www.techcentralstation.be , 2005 05 06 "Services Without Borders"   By Asta Tobuleviciene, Media Relations Officer, LFMI; http://www.techcentralstation.be , 2005 02 25 "Pension Reform in Lithuania"   By Monika Kacinskiene, Policy Analyst, LFMI; 'The State of the Union', The Stockholm Network , 2005 "A Different Year for European Think-tanks"   By Pierre Garello, Director of Academic Affairs, IES-Europe and Ugnius Trumpa, President, LFMI, http://www.atlasusa.org , 2005 01 "No such thing as a free lunch"   By Guoda Steponaviciene, Vice-president, LFMI, http://www.euobserver.com/ , 2004 11 29 "Thinking Outside the Tank"   By Ugnius Trumpa, President, LFMI, http://www.techcentralstation.be , 2004 09 08 "Lisbon Strategy or Bust"   By Ramunas Vilpisauskas, Senior Policy Analyst, LFMI, http://www.techcentralstation.be , 2004 03 11 "Iraq will learn from our mistakes"   By Ugnius Trumpa, President, LFMI, November 2003 "The Information Society Moves Forward"   By Guoda Steponaviciene, Vice-President, LFMI, Lithuania in the World , 2003 No. 4 "Pension Reform Gets Under Way"   By Guoda Steponaviciene, Vice-President, LFMI, Lithuania in the World , 2003 No. 3 "Companies Play to Single Market Rules"   By Ramunas Vilpisauskas, Senior Policy Analyst, LFMI, Lithuania in the World , 2003 No. 3 "New Europe's EUphoria"   By Remigijus Simasius, Senior Policy Analyst, LFMI, http://www.techcentralstation.be , 2003 06 25 "The State of the Finances Says It All"   By Ruta Vainiene, Vice-President, LFMI, Lithuania in the World , 2003 No. 2 "A Sad Tale of a Housing Bank"   Elena Leontjeva, Consultant, LFMI, "Liudna pasaka apie busto banka," published in the Veidas  weekly of July 4, 2002 "The Enlargement of the European Union: The impact of joining the Single Market"   By Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, Policy Analyst, LFMI, Indsigt , 2002 05 15 "Is it Necessary to Have the Parliamentary Code of Ethics?"   By Ugnius Trumpa, President, LFMI, Seimo kronika , 2002 02 18 "The More the Better: but not Taxes!"   Rūta Vainienė, Vice President, LFMI, Lithuania in the World , 2002 No. 1 "Information Society: a Foot in the Market"   Guoda Steponavičienė, Vice President, LFMI, Lithuania in the World , 2001 No. 6 "Economic Conditions for the Development of IT&T Services in Lithuania and the Influence of Political Measures in this Area"   Guoda Steponavičienė, Policy Analyst, LFMI, Baltic IT&T Review , 2001 No. 23 "There's Security in Securities"   Andrius Bogdanovičius, Policy Analyst, LFMI, Lithuania in the World , 2001 No. 5 "Lithuania's Tax Reform Overshadowed by Estonia"   Elena Leontjeva, President, LFMI, "Lietuvos mokesčių reforma - Estijos šešėlyje," published in the Respublika  daily of August 31, 2001 "Reality of Life Makes New Rulers Pause for Thought"   Elena Leontjeva interviewed, President, LFMI, "The Baltic Times", July 12-18, 2001 "The Constitution's Fiasco"   By Elena Leontjeva, President, LFMI, "Konstitucijos fiasco," published in the Respublika  daily of October 24, 2000 "Lithuanian Free Market Institute Takes Lithuania to Brighter Days"   Summer 2000, an article about LFMI "Williams: one more resignation, more uncertainty"   November 1999, Elena Leontjeva, President, LFMI, interviewed "Free Marketeers to Seimas: Reform, Now"   October 1999, Elena Leontjeva, President, LFMI, interviewed "Farewell to the Currency Board"   November 1998, by Elena Leontjeva, President, LFMI   For more articles, go to the LFMI's newsletter "The Free Market"   Press releases Tax Freedom Day in Lithuania Falls on May 5 in 2005  May 4, 2005 It’s Time to Break up the European Tax Cartel, says a leading Lithuanian think-tank  September 13, 2004 Lithuanian free-marketeer ranks among ten people who have changed Lithuania  May 4, 2004 Tax Freedom Day Recedes and Comes on May 8th in 2004  April 19, 2004 The Currency Board – Lithuania’s Weightiest Reform - Marks the 10th Anniversary A special publication presents an outlook of the currency board’s advocates and opponents after ten years  April 8, 2004 LFMI receives a Templeton Freedom Award  March 15, 2004 The goals of the Lisbon agenda are hardly compatible, says LFMI  January 29, 2004 LFMI Withdrew From the Sunrise Commission  March 20, 2003 Lithuania’s Economic Freedom Increases Slowly  June 26, 2002 Ugnius Trumpa Appointed LFMI President  November 23, 2001 LFMI Announces Changes in Management  November 15, 2001 LFMI proposes imperative actions to the new cabinet  November 10, 2000 Lithuania Enjoys Less Freedom than the Other Baltic States  January 11, 2000 In the 2000 Index of Economic Freedom released by the Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal, Lithuania ranked 61 with a score of 2.90, "mostly free"  January 6, 2000 Elena Leontjeva, the president of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute, has resigned from the position of economic advisor to the president of Lithuania  November 4, 1999   Papers delivered "Promoting economic freedom: what have we learned?"   Presented by Elena Leontjeva, Founder and Chair of the Board, Lithuanian Free Market Institute, at an international conference "A Liberal Agenda for the New Century: A Global Perspective", April 8-9, 2004 "Challenges for Small Countries in the European Union"   Presented by Ruta Vainiene, Vice-president, LFMI, at an international conference "Austrian Economics Today II: Reforms for a Competitive Economy", November 21, 2003 "Comments on the Bauspar System and Proposal for Lithuania"   Presented by Douglas B. Diamond, Consultant of the Project on Housing in Lithuania, at a round table discussion on the Bauspar system, July 5, 2002 "Behind the Informal Economy: Estimating, Explaining, Counteracting"   Presented by Guoda Steponaviciene, Vice-president, LFMI, at a round table discussion "The Informal Economy in the EU Countries", April 18-20, 2002 "Integration impact assessment in Lithuania: from an instrument of forming the negotiating positions to the improvement of administrative practice"   Paper (presentation in "Power Point", 44 KB) by Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, Policy Analyst, LFMI, presented at the conference "Regulatory impact assessment systems in the EU accession countries: assessment of EU integration impact as a better administrative practice", December 6, 2001 "Assessing Impact of EU Membership on the Baltic States"   Paper by Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, Policy Analyst, LFMI, presented at the conference "European Integration: Economic and Security Implications for Central and Eastern Europe ", May 22, 2001 "An Overview of Lithuanian Economy"   Paper by Guoda Steponavičienė, Policy Analyst, LFMI, presented at a meeting of heads of Norwegian business activities in Lithuania, December 12, 2000 "An Overview of Transition to Market Economy"   Comments by Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, Policy Analyst, LFMI, presented at the seminar held by the OECD and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to present the OECD's publiaction "The Baltic States - Regional Economic Analysis", April 28, 2000 "Letting Free Market Work: The Need for Policy and Legal Reform"   Paper delivered in a regional conference on SME for the 21st century "Promoting Business through Cooperative Actions", Sofia, 17 - 18 February 1999, by Remigijus Šimašius Legal Expert, Lithuanian Free Market Institute. "The Role of the State in Industrial Restructing: Captured by the State, the Invisible Market Hand is Powerless"   Comments on paper by Prof. Wally Struys "The Role of the State in Industrial Restructuring: The Visible or the Invisible Hand? by Elena Leontjeva "Privatisation and Prospects for Private Sector Developement"   Lithuanian Capital Market and Investment Opportunities Vilnius, Lithuania 15-16 May 1997, by Elena Leontjeva, President of LFMI             Top of page

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