Another euromyth has hit the headlines, namely that the EU is banning New Zealand butter, such as the famous Anchor brand.

This is not the case. There has been a temporary halt in imports of the goods due to a ruling by the Court of Justice that the current trading arrangements were illegal. These arrangements are being sorted out as a matter of priority and consumers shouldn’t notice a big hole in the supermarket’s butter aisle.

You can rest assured that, if Anchor is your thing, there will still be the usual 77,402 tonnes of New Zealand butter arriving in the EU in 2006.

It is interesting, however, that papers such as the Express, who often denigrate other Europeans as “foreigners”, were so outraged by the thought of New Zealand farmers missing out. It seems that only European foreigners are the object of their wrath!