Dairy farmers on Cyprus refer to halloumi as “white gold.”
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.NICOSIA, Cyprus -- The salty, rubbery cheese made from goats' and sheep's milk and prized for its ability to withstand a grill without melting is the country's leading export.
Cyprus was split along ethnic lines in 1974 when Turkey invaded in the wake of a coup by supporters of union with Greece. The country joined the EU in 2004, but EU rules and regulations only apply to the southern, Greek Cypriot part of the island led by an internationally recognized government. “Turkish Cypriot producers should be able to export PDO-registered hellim/halloumi as they deem viable,” Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce President Turgay Deniz said. “They should not be restricted to trading across and via the ports in the south.”
But Cypriot European Parliament member, Costas Mavrides, alleges the Commission is “arbitrarily” stalling it's approval for halloumi to get the PDO. He said there’s no legal reason for the cheese not to gain the designation and that the only step that's left is the green light from the Commission. But Cheesemakers’ Association President George Petrou warns that more than one-third of the 13,000 Cypriot families in the halloumi/hellim business would find themselves out of a job if they couldn't use as much cows' milk in their cheese.
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