ECB seeks only minor change to League's plan on central bank gold reserves
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ROME (Reuters) - The European Central Bank on Tuesday gave a substantial green light to a bill by Italy's ruling League party which seeks to spell out that gold reserves held by the Bank of Italy belong to the state, and not the bank itself.The bill, tabled in February by the League's economics chief Claudio Borghi, was criticised by the opposition who said its aim was to allow the ruling coalition to potentially sell the gold to fix Italy's public finance problems.In an official opinion..