No bonuses should be paid at any bank that might need new government support until they have paid back the loan, the socialist party SP said during the general financial debate on Wednesday reports news agency Novum.

In 2008 when banks received capital injections from the state, they continued to pay out bonuses. ‘Now it looks as if banks will again need rescuing, we must make tough agreements with them,’ SP MP Ewout Irrgang told parliament.
Irrgang also said the government is cutting too much. ‘In a period of drought you must water not prune,’ he said.
Euro countries
Parliament must have a say in decisions made necessary by support for euro zone countries, said liberal VVD MP Mark Harbers.
‘If there are budget implications, parliament must have a vote,’ he said during the debate.
The Netherlands is one of just two euro zone countries still to vote on the enlargement of the European Support Fund from €440bn to €780bn.
The financial debate allows parliament to look at the government’s 2012 budget in more detail and is still going on.