Centre for Economics and Business Research Ltd. (CEBR) www.cebr.com, an independent British consultancy, acknowledged Lithuania as the most attractive EU country for investments, followed by Slovakia, Latvia and Hungary.
Commenting upon the results of the research carried out by CEBR, East-West Management Institute, Inc. (EWMI) www.ewmi.org, a non-profit organization that promotes economic and legal reform in countries making the transition to a free-market economy, has added that investors are particularly interested in certain characteristics of the country and the company they are going to invest in.

EWMI has marked out general and microeconomic criteria as well as financial market characteristics mainly observed by investors in the process of selecting a country. Legal, financial and political stability of the country are named as general criteria; microeconomic criteria include the qualification of company managing authorities and company production; financial market characteristics comprise the liquidity and activity of the stock market, market regulation as well as control of capital flows.