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Dennis de Jong, SP group chair in the European Parliament, believes that the special 'crisis committee', of which he is a member, should look into the question of whether Commissioner Neelie Kroes's policy in relation to financial penalties connected to state support for insolvent banks was correct. Dutch state support for the ING bank was amongst those attracting a fine from Brussels. De Jong wants assurance that state support was given in a correct manner in the case of all European banks and to know whether the reaction from Brussels to this support was effective and even-handed.