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Host countries should not set up special regimes for sovereign wealth.

IN A wintry November 12 years ago, a first-term French president brought weeks of chaos to the streets and paralysis to the railways by trying to end the country's generous "special regimes" for public-sector pensions.

EMPTY railway platforms, deserted bus stops, paralysed roads: France ground to a halt on October 18th, as transport, electricity and gas unions led a one-day strike against a planned reform of the "special regimes" for public-sector pensions.

Before Mr Sarkozy came along, nobody dared to touch the special regimes, for instance, nor to attack the cherished 35-hour week.Yet a closer look at the Sarkozy method reveals some shortcomings.

Juncker, seeing the way the public debate was going, promised in his manifesto that "I will not sacrifice Europe's safety, health, social and data protection standards … on the altar of free trade … Nor will I accept that the jurisdiction of courts in the EU member states is limited by special regimes for investor disputes".

Yet his record on domestic reform is less radical than had been expected.Consider, for instance, the abolition of the "special regimes" for public-sector pensions, which enabled 1.6m railway workers and others to retire early, often in practice at the age of 55.

Meanwhile the Tories are so ideologically opposed to public ownership and taxpayer support for bust banks that they propose that bank bail-outs should be led by the Bank of England under a special regime for companies under administration.

"We are not sure whether to set up a special regime for e-commerce, or to remove the country of destination principle altogether," said David Seite, one of the authors of the draft regulation.

Rather, he said, "it is enough to seek agreement about the creation of a special regime for financial firms.

Cost of living bonuses for Galápagos residents would be recalculated under the new Organic Law of Special Regime for Galapagos (LOREG).

Defending this system against those who object that a special regime for athletes undermines what college is supposed to be about, the NCAA promotes the concept of the student-athlete, a PR strategy that everyone has come to realize defies what it has traditionally meant to be a student.