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It then examines three ‘blind spots’ the EU must attend to, reflecting on the extent to which they have Welcome to Barbieland: European sentiment in the year of wars and elections – ECFR/551 2 been exposed by two major events of the past year: the war in Gaza and the European Parliament election. [...] This part of the EU saw low turnout for the European Parliament election, the normalised presence of Eurosceptic parties and attitudes, and low-key celebrations of the 20th anniversary of joining the bloc. [...] The tenor of much of the campaign across the 27 member states suggested the EU – whose motto expresses a desire to be “united Welcome to Barbieland: European sentiment in the year of wars and elections – ECFR/551 7 . [...] These are the likelier routes if the European political mainstream continues to further legitimise the ‘ethnic’ conception of Europeanness and ignores the voiceless in defining the purpose of the EU. [...] European sentiment In using the concept of the “European sentiment”, we have been inspired by the works of Swiss philosopher and founder of the European Cultural Foundation, Denis de Rougemont, who – in the aftermath of the second world war – wrote about the need to awaken a “ common sentiment of the European.” In the first edition of the European Sentiment Compass, we elaborated on the way this c.