Brussels, 19/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission favourably welcomed the new proposals from the Basel Committee on the reform of the solvency ratio of banks. In a press release published on Wednesday, it asserts that it will "closely take into account" in the drafts of new legislative proposals at the European level, "while necessarily concentrating of certain points of detail". "The European legislation must take into account the specificities of the European banking sector,...