Abstract
During the past twelve years, three of Jacques Chirac's Prime ministers -Alain Juppé, Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Dominique de Villepin- decided to reform but backed out in the face of protests. The election of a new President, who claimed that he was the candidate for change, during the whole campaign, can thus appear as a turning-point. In July 2007, during the presidential campaign, Nicolas Sarkozy said « I'm neither Thatcher nor Reagan ». Yet in November 2007, the economist published an article entitled « Sarkozy's Thatcher moment ». It is therefore interesting to wonder if Nicolas Sarkozy can become France's Margaret Thatcher. In other words, with the arrival of N. Sarkozy, to what extent can the Thatcher-type reforms be applied in France, or adapted to France?
