Brussels, 10/05/2001 (Agence Europe) - The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) decided on Tuesday to lower its key rates by 0.25 percentage points. The ECB justified its decision by a fall in inflationary pressure and a slowdown in the growth of the monetary mass. The minimum submission rate applied to main Eurosystem financing operations was thus lowered to 4.50%. The interest rate on the marginal lending facility (floor rate) and that of the deposit facility (ceiling rate)...