ABSTRACT
The European Community legal regime originally provided rights of free movement for nationals of the Member States only on the narrow ground of taking up, either as an employee or as a self-employed person, an economic activity in the host State:
The founding Treaties do not purport to establish an absolute freedom of migration in a general sense. They confine themselves to the movement of persons as an economic factor of production of the commodities envisaged by each Treaty [Lasok, The Law of the Economy in the European Communities, 1980].
