maybe hes telling the truth but twisting it a little,
Nokia will start shipping there own pre-orders on the 9th but 3rd party retailers will have to wait a week longer for nokia to stock them maybe, this is always the case in the past Nokia UK have always shipped the UK pre-ordered versions a week or two before they stock anyone else with UK versions. but that does not mean you wont find Euro versions on sale in UK before hand by 3rd party retailers