From now on information on State-owned enterprise reform, governance and transparency policies as well as strategic and social projects of SOEs is also available in English on vvi.ukmin.lt/en. Here you will also find the key financial data on SOEs and the results of the SOE portfolio.

According to the data published by European Travel Commission (ETC) unifying 33 European national tourism associations, Lithuania is one of the leaders among European countries indicating growth of tourist flow and number of accomodations.

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Nasdaq OMX Vilnius and its team with Baltic Institute of Corporate Governance was a source of inspiration to start reform on state owned enterprises. Listed companies are role model on how to implement transparency and high standards of disclosure for each SOE. As these companies by their nature are most public – owned by all citizens of Lithuania.

Milda Dargužaitė starts her new role as Managing Director of Invest Lithuania, a public body subordinate to the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Lithuania. Ms Dargužaitė returned to Lithuania in June 2011 after seventeen years in the United States of America, where she was Vice President at Goldman Sachs, the Investment Banking and Securities firm in New York.

The Ministry of Economy signed a memorandum with the Lithuanian State Department of Tourism and the municipalities of resorts and the largest cities of Lithuania, aimed to consolidate the idea to establish the National Conference Bureau in 2012. The Memorandum concerning the establishment of the Conference Bureau was signed by the municipalities of Vilnius, Kaunas, Druskininkai, Birštonas and Neringa.