Dutch PM-countries should have national bank funds

PARIS, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said on Thursday that while he opposed an EU-wide bank rescue fund, national governments should set aside funds to help any troubled banks in their own countries.

But he said that this plan should be coordinated among countries.

"The plan is for every member state to put aside money to make a capital injection for their own banks if necessary. The idea is that it will be some 3 percent of gross domestic product," he said after a meeting French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

"If you put that together, it is a lot of money."

(Reporting by Francois Murphy and Marcel Michelson; Writing by Anna Willard)