As a result, French Socialists always positioned themselves to the left of their European partners, giving a major economic role to the state following the big nationalizations that took place in 1981 after François Mitterrand was first elected president. Later it fought against Tony Blair’s “Third Way” and Gerhard Schröder’s “new center” in the late 1990’s.
所以，法国社会党人常把自己定位于其欧洲合作伙伴的左翼，自1981年弗朗索瓦·密特朗首次当选总统领导国有化生产后就一直主导着国内经济。后来，法国社会党一直对英国总统布莱尔“第三条道路”的政治经济策略和德国总理施罗德的“九十年代后期新中心”的说法持反对态度。