02/03/2004 (Agence Europe) - Former European Commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, Yves-Thibault de Silguy has said that he would like to see France send "full-time" MEPs to the European Parliament when they are elected in the June elections. De Silguy, who is currently member of the board at the Suez Group, is responsible for MEDEF 's (French employers) European policy, was in Brussels last Friday to present MEDEF's Memorandum EUROPE 2004. The former Commissioner informed the press that he found it deplorable that French MEPs expressed little interest in the parliamentary committees such as that on environment and industry, where Parliament currently had more power and "whose work is essential for the defence of French businesses". According to Le Monde he also criticised the fact that during the last legislature, 38 out of the 87 French members of the European Parliament had "never been rapporteurs of one of the 1,300 reports" voted on by the Parliament. De Silguy also considered that French MEPs were too dispersed in the minority political groups, which reduced their collective weight when voting.