37It must also be noted that the rules regarding equal treatment forbid not only overt discrimination by reason of nationality but also all covert forms of discrimination which, by the application of other criteria of differentiation, lead in fact to the same result (see, inter alia, Case C-279/93 Schumacker [1995] ECR I-225, paragraph 26 and the case-law cited).
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