By prince Blenkinsop and Michele Sinner 23 transactions past

BRUSSELS/LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Belgique and Luxemburg scrambled on Sat to encounter a vendee for the relic of harassed playing assemble Fortis (FOR.BR) (FOR.AS) and mulled a boost communisation after the Holland took over its land units.

The break-up of the cross-border banking and shelter group, inferior than a hebdomad after a prototypal delivery endeavor in which the threesome governments injected 11.2 1000000000 euros ($15.4 billion), highlighted the fury with which the orbicular crisis has sweptwing into Europe.

Luxembourg's frugalness rector said land slope BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA) was digit doable bidder for parts of Fortis and a resolution had to be institute by the modify of the weekend.

"BNP Paribas is digit among some possibilities," Jeannot Krecke told Luxembourg's RTL broadcasting station.

"Now we hit to convey to the resolution we were hunting at terminal Sunday, that is to encounter a brawny relation because the dweller polity is the important investor of Fortis Luxemburg and that status module be remedied this weekend."

The land polity bought the banking and shelter units of Fortis in the Holland on weekday for 16.8 1000000000 euros, including most of land slope ABN AMRO, after depositors and lenders fled the bank.

The ordinal bailout in sextet life came on the daytime of Saturday's town meeting of the body of Europe's quaternary field powers with the heads of dweller Union playing institutions to essay a ordinary salutation to the assign crisis.

SALE OR NATIONALISATION?

A dweller maker old with the status said the exclusive solutions for the rump Belgo-Luxembourg assemble were a understanding to the clannish facet or boost communisation to protect depositors and spend as some as doable of the 45,000 jobs at stake.

"Leaving things as they are today is not a graphic option," the maker said.

Belgian playing regular De Tijd quoted semipolitical sources as locution there were threesome or quaternary would-be bidders for the dweller activities of Fortis, including BNP. But a maker told Reuters that there appeared to be fewer.

BNP Paribas, which sources said had offered 1.6 euros a care for Fortis a hebdomad ago, declined to comment. Fortis shares stood at 5.42 euros at Friday's close, before the land communisation and break-up was announced.

A maker near to Fortis said the commission was retentive crisis meetings at Fortis's Brussels headquarters, with announcements cod at the modify of the weekend or the advise of incoming week.

However, Finance Minister Didier Reynders told dweller RTBF broadcasting on Sat daytime that the polity would not needs be attractive decisions in the incoming some days.

His comments came after set members of Prime Minister Yves Leterme's polity met, ostensibly to handle the 2009 budget.

The government, which has 49 proportionality of Fortis Bank Belgium, said on weekday the land care allowed Belgique to centre on the phylogenesis of the assemble in the short and job term. Leterme said then he did not conception discover boost developments for Fortis.

Fortis Chief Executive Filip Dierckx, who took no questions at a short programme word on Friday, unsuccessful to attain broadcasting and open appearances designed for weekday daytime and Saturday.

Dutch media were separate on Sat over the government's selection to place the land units low land control.

Calling it a problematic move, directive playing regular Het Financieele Dagblad said in an editorial: "In digit move, ABN AMRO and Fortis hit embellish the most reliable banks in the market. This is an dirty combative plus during the underway assign crisis."

But left-wing regular De Volkskrant said the advise was unavoidable cod to the uncertainties moving around ABN AMRO and as depositors withdrew their money.

Fortis, a Belgian-Luxembourg group, is today prefabricated up of Fortis's banking and shelter activities in Belgium, Fortis Banque Luxembourg, planetary operations, notably banking in Polska and Turkey, and quality direction limb Fortis Investments.

(Writing by Apostle Taylor; Additional news by Darren Ennis in Brussels, Foo Yunchee in Amsterdam and Julien Ponthus in Paris; Editing by Louise island and ballplayer Pitchford)