在上个世纪八十年代和九十年代发生地两次私有化风暴部分瓦解了自二战以后建立的国有化工业结构，私有化在八十年代由社会党总统弗朗索瓦密特朗持续推广。

• Two waves of privatisation in the 1980s and 1990s partly dismantled the edifice of nationalised industry built after the second world war and extended in the early 1980s by the Socialist president, Fran?ois Mitterrand.