Brussels, 09/06/2006 (Agence Europe) - The European Union has no cause to blush over the quality of its bathing water. The annual report which has just been published by the European Commission for the previous year's bathing season reveals that using the yardstick of the bacteriological and physico-chemical criteria of directive 76/160/EC, 96.1% of the costal waters of the EU-25 complied with the minimum obligatory quality in 2005 - an honourable result, but nevertheless slightly lower than...