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In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.

Sentence 1:The party regarded the accession of Hungary a failure , and looked on the EU as an organization that did not serve the interests of the Hungarians . Sentence 2:However , even in this period , the party did not refuse the idea of a radically reformed European confederation .
Output:
however