Mr. countbat ,
I never said in my post that Mr. Iordache , the owner of Blue Air is the cleanest businessman of Europe. There are some matter I must comment :
1. Romstrade (Iordache's main company) has a long term cooperation with Italian ASTALDI for construction works on airport's infrastructures. It is , if you accept the term , a crossborder cooperation
2. If you believe that EU money (27 bln will come during 2007-2013) could be stealed without any control from European Comision , you are a naive person. I heard about tens of EU financed projects in Romania that has tens of audits before getting the money . If you know the procedures , any EU state getting money from EU should first finance any project from ts own resources and get the money after the project is done and financial audits is made.
3. I trully advice you to take press articles on the internet with the same suspicion as you consider ALL Romanian citizens "being proud tou scam EU" as you said .
Your considerations about the capital shares of Blue Air versus the 1 bln order from Boeing shows that you treat things without any understanding of financial montures in this business . First of all this is not a signed contract , they only started negociantions , and second , if this will be signed , it will be a medium term lease process , when money will be paid during several years.
Anyway , I think there are a lot of examples across Europe these days of airliners that are faceing really bad financial difficulties from "trusted nations" . Last examples : Slovak SkyEurope and Italian MyAir. Or should I remember you Sterling?
So , my dear fellow , my "so called idealism" is based on facts , your bad words on Romanians are based on the internet researches. Once again , try to find facts instead of rumors !