Lithuania Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/lithuania/ Independent research and policy analysis on fiscal, monetary, and regulatory issues in Europe Wed, 08 Mar 2023 09:06:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://en.irefeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/04/IREF-LinkedIn-Profile-DarkBlue-scaled.png Lithuania Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/lithuania/ 32 32 A Plan for Sound Money https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/a-plan-for-sound-money/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-plan-for-sound-money https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/a-plan-for-sound-money/#respond Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:44:22 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/a-plan-for-sound-money/ In response to the financial crisis in the euro zone, the Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI) has worked out and submitted to public institutions a plan which would help countries potentially exiting the euro zone to build stable and sound money. LFMI‘s proposal can be also used by the euro zone when attempting to strengthen the euro and to restore people‘s confidence in the single currency.

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/a-plan-for-sound-money/feed/ 0 Lessons from Lithuanian austerity https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/lessons-from-lithuanian-austerity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lessons-from-lithuanian-austerity https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/lessons-from-lithuanian-austerity/#respond Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:54:35 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/lessons-from-lithuanian-austerity/ In recent years, the Baltic States have been showcased as an austerity success story. While the whole world has seen countries such as Greece, Spain and Portugal struggling to reduce their public spending, Lithuania has been hailed as an austerity example. Lithuanian success in public spending cuts has been widely acknowledged; yet simultaneous tax increases and their harmful effects have received less attention. Since the end of 2011, however, the country once again found itself embroiled in a budget crisis and is now moving down the dangerous road of tax hikes.

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