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It was one of ten proposals put forward to the Government by Investors' Forum, the association uniting major investors in Lithuania's economy, on how to improve Lithuania's competitiveness and investment climate.

Rolandas Valiunas, Chairman of the Board of Investors' Forum, says the national airline could be founded by the Government. The Government could assign the task to the Ministry of Transport and Communications and ask the Finance Ministry to allocate funding. Another possibility is to entrust one of the state enterprises with this task and a holding could be established responsible for the work. Moreover, ways could be found to take over airline Air Lituanica. Clearly, there are many options. According to Valiunas, the national airline has to be established so that Lithuania would not depend on the will of airline companies to fly or not to fly to Vilnius.

Valiunas says the most important destinations for Lithuania are Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo, Tampere, Copenhagen, Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt and London.

When asked how the Government responded to the proposal, Valiunas said that "Minister of Transport and Communications Rimantas Sinkevicius remained diplomatic".

Investors' Forum also discussed the liberalisation of the Labour Code, education and healthcare reforms, tax amendments and improvement of tax administration, fight against underground economy and corruption, development of IT infrastructure. Investors urged to enhance the efficiency of the public sector and noncompetition of the state sector with private business.