There is a new word in Russia, it was mocked in the notorious show Solovyov Live on Putin's channel Rossiya 1: "Macronizing".

It is synonymous with endless phone calls.

On Saturday, Putin had Macron on the line with Chancellor Scholz.

On Monday, Macron and Scholz met at the summit of EU heads of government in Brussels.

A video switch to Volodymyr Zelenskyj was expected.

In Davos, he had previously called for measures to be taken against the distribution of Russian propaganda via the Eutelsat satellite.

At the time of going to press, it was not possible to say whether he would repeat this in Brussels.

No doubt France's Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna is faced with the demand.

She flew to Kyiv yesterday.

Shortly before, the "Comité Diderot" had published its communiqué on the expulsion of the channels Rossija 1, Rossija 24 and Telekanal Zvezda from the American satellites Horizons and Intelsat.

The initiative demands that Europe also take this step.

Eutelsat, a company in which the French state is the main shareholder, broadcasts Putin's war channel.

France turns deaf

But France turns a deaf ear.

André Lange from the "Comité Diderot" has the impression that the topic is "taboo" and that the telephone operator Macron has a very long line.

Not only he: No politician, no medium takes up the concerns of the "Comité Diderot".

There has been an embarrassed silence since Le Monde published a small article three weeks ago.

In return, Sergey Lavrov was able to announce to the French on Sunday that Putin was in the best of health.

There are "no signs of any kind of illness or infirmity".

As with the Italian Rete4, Lavrov was not disturbed by critical questions on the private broadcaster tf1.

At the beginning of the war he had denounced the supposed "censorship" in France.

In Italy he then dealt with Hitler's alleged Jewish origins.

And he wrapped the French in their cultural chauvinism.

"We're doing what we have to do," he said, adding that genocide was underway in Ukraine.

Of course, he wasn't referring to the war crimes committed by the Russian army.

"How would France react if Belgium banned the French language", which has been defended with the sword for centuries by the "Forty Immortals" of the "Académie Française"?

Yes, how?

Only the Belgians reacted attentively to Lavrov's lyre among the Gauls: Macron, on the phone.