44The Court has consistently held that there is nothing to prevent, in principle, the granting of social security benefits to Union citizens who are not economically active being made conditional upon those citizens meeting the necessary requirements for obtaining a legal right of residence in the host Member State (see, to that effect, Case C-85/96 Martínez Sala [1998] ECR I-2691, paragraphs 61 to 63; Case C-184/99 Grzelczyk [2001] ECR I-6193, paragraphs 32 and 33; Case C-456/02 Trojani [2004] ECR I-7573, paragraphs 42 and 43; Case C-209/03 Bidar [2005] ECR I-2119, paragraph 37; and Case C-158/07 Förster [2008] ECR I-8507, paragraph 39).
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