Judgment_paragraph 71 · GV v Chief Appeals Officer and Others (C-488/21)

71In that regard, it is important to emphasise that, through the taxes which a migrant worker pays in the host Member State in the course of his or her employment, that worker also contributes to the financing of the social policies of that Member State and should, consequently, profit from them under the same conditions as national workers. Therefore, the objective consisting in avoiding an unreasonable financial burden on the host Member State cannot justify the unequal treatment of migrant workers as compared with national workers (see, to that effect, judgment of 14 June 2012, Commission v Netherlands, C‑542/09, EU:C:2012:346, paragraphs 66 and 69).