Luxembourg, 17/10/2000 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday, the Ecofin Council reached a political agreement on the directive aimed at harmonising savings products and assets eligible for Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS). "This is the first important directive on financial services adopted in the past seven years. It is part of the priorities of the action plan on financial services" (which aims at integration of the European financial markets by 2005),...