60In that regard, it must be borne in mind that the Treaty rules governing freedom of movement for persons and the measures adopted to implement them cannot be applied to situations which have no factor linking them with any of the situations governed by European Union law and which are confined in all relevant respects within a single Member State (see, to that effect, Case C-212/06 Government of the French Community and Walloon Government [2008] ECR I-1683, paragraph 33; Metock and Others, paragraph 77 and, McCarthy, paragraph 45).
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