Living in France I am spoiled for choice on European foods, even the lower end supermarkets seem to have a huge amount of space for cheeses.
whilst Mimolette is not among my favorite of Cheeses it is sad to hear about any cheese being banned, surely the administration could have traced the source of this and any other batch that was believed to have contained mites, and instead of a blanket ban, inform individual suppliers / manufacturers.
over here whilst there is legislation and control, it often seems more relaxed, I recall at the height of the horse meat scandal many supermakets simply put up notices warning you that the product may or may not contain this, they did not remove the product, but it up to your own choice.