Judgment_paragraph 52 · European Commission v Kingdom of Spain (C-269/09)

52Even though those provisions, according to their wording, are directed at ensuring that foreign nationals and companies are treated in the host Member State in the same way as nationals of that State, it is important to state that, in that context, nationals of the Member States have in particular the right, which they derive directly from the Treaty, to leave their State of origin to enter the territory of another Member State and reside there in order to pursue an economic activity there (see, to that effect, inter alia, Case C-415/93 Bosman [1995] ECR I-4921, paragraph 95, and Case C-212/06 Gouvernement de la Communauté française and Gouvernement wallon [2008] ECR I-1683, paragraph 44).

European Commission v Kingdom of Spain (C-269/09)

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