...ian contractors apply tremendous amount of pressure on Slovenia's government not to give the job to Cengiz...the ways not to give the job to Cengiz without looking like a corrupt government disregarding EU tender rules....
Only if US government tried so hard to sell The Robbins Company TBM in the world...All Trump does is lipservice, populism and hot air. And we give away our monumental companies to Chinese.
This is nonsense. Italian companies do a lot of great work in Italy and abroad. But if the corrupt government does not want to spend money for the maintenance of the tunnels or assigns too little money, then you get what you pay for.
More opposition to Stonehenge tunnel...
https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/18181487.stonehenge-alliance-calls-a303-tunnel-scrapped-open-letter-government/
You might also try getting some research grants from UK government, Or from European Union. A colleague of mine from Germany applied and got partial funding from a European research fund. It requires you to find partners in other countries and academia though.