translate English to French: Our concern today is to return the individual to the centre, what Bernard Cassen5 calls "preference for the citizen", the urgent need for which he spells out in the following terms: "in the face of the suicidal tendency to view everything in terms of money and markets, it is becoming imperative to make good the increasing deficit of humanity in present-day societies, and therefore to make human beings once again the centre of concerns, strategies and policies.
Pas l’homme en tant qu’actionnaire, rentier, consommateur ou contribuable pour lequel tout se joue et tout se calcule « ici et maintenant ».