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1 ‘EU was not Built on a Spiritually Neutral Foundation; as European Integration Continues We Need Clarity about the Nature of the Values which Inform European Society, Writes Bertie Ahern’, Irish Times, 3 May 2004, available at: http://www.irishtimes.com/debate/eu-was-not-built-on-a-spiritually-neutral-foundation-1.1138886, accessed 26 January 2014.
I would like to thank the various authors for their contributions to this special issue and their support of the Assessing Accession network in recent years. Thanks also have to be given to the various sponsors of the network since its inception in 2008. These are the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES), the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) and the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES). Without their sponsorship the network could not exist and the opportunities it has offered researchers could not have been made. Final thanks go to Europe-Asia Studies, including the editor Terry Cox, the administrative staff, and the various peer reviewers for their comments and support in bringing this special issue together. Without them it would not have happened.