Until autumn 1997 the year was proclaimed to be the concluding year of privatization. The State and Privatization Trust … succeeded in escaping two traps set by the election cycle. One was the slowing down of campaign-like privatization and its … success criterion of privatization, but merely because of the logic of exposition: the presentation of summary data provides …

In 1995 the government fulfilled its three important promises regarding privatization: it started to sell the big firms … in energetics-infrastructure, accelerated privatization in terms of revenues and increased the share of cash against … allocations free of charge or at preferential terms. Paradoxically, the year of success of privatization was a continuation of the …

basic theoretical issues debated at the beginning of privatization. Does it matter at all who the owner is? What can justify …

have been an average year had the scandal related to the State Privatization and Property Management Agency not broken out …, which shook the trust of a great part of public opinion in the purity of privatization, and in the honesty of the ruling … rather in putting an end to privatization than in its continuation. …

The government has lacked a stated policy on privatization since the summer of 1998. Retrospective analysis, based on …