Modern world implies speed in taking decisions and also the appearance of some multinational super-firms that don't take into consideration the national boundaries any more. Yet, this doesn't hold good for Romania. One of the most difficult problems of the reform in Romania lied in the lack of a substantial flow of foreign capital. The lack of the western governments' support for Romania the bad image in press or God knows other things were to be blamed for this. Nevertheless, it has never been talked about the lack of reaction to the investors' requests regarding the privatization procedures quickening. This is best felt on the strategic investors' level. It should be an engine for privatization in Romania. There are firms like Renault, which took over the Dacia Car Factory; Lafarge, which took over almost the whole cement industry or Tubman, a firm representing a giant's interests in the rolled goods industry-Duferco. Any time these firms have tried to do something in the modern economy spirit, marked by dynamism in taking decisions, an authority stepped in, pleading in the sweet Balkan style. Renault had to wait for almost a week to take the control over the factories in Pitesti as the Competition Council had investigated the business lest a monopoly should come into sight on the market, though, it was only about one of the three car factories in our country. Lafarge went through the same situations. But it was very skillful in acquiring the cement producing enterprises by means of the capital market. The situation seems to be now repeating again in case of Tubman, which will have to wait an investigation run by the same Competition Council that could last almost five months in order to take the control over the Petrotub Enterprise. Being controlled by a close friend of PDSR (the Party of Social Democracy in Romania), this institution has recently released decisio