Strasbourg, 22/07/2005 (Agence Europe) - The European Ombudsman, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, has criticised the European Commission for its interpretation of rules on fishing in the waters surrounding the Azores, a group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Portugal. This follows a complaint from the Azores government contesting the Commission's view concerning the date beyond which the regime governing the right to fish in Azorean waters (the zones up to 200 nautical miles from the...