The EU Attention Report
Which EU communications actually reach readers
We score every digest item by its within-week percentile rank to remove audience-size effects, then aggregate by institution, category, and story thread. Wikipedia pageview deltas sanity-check whether the wider public was paying attention too.
Cohort: items published between 2026-02-22 and 2026-04-19 (342 items, 28-day maturity window, n ≥ 5 per bucket).
Institutions
avg within-week percentileEuropean Securities and Markets Authority tops the list (68.5 from n=5) but the strongest reach at scale is European Medicines Agency (66.8 across 21 items).
European Securities and Markets Authority
n=5 · top quartile share 60% · 395 views
European Medicines Agency
n=21 · top quartile share 42.9% · 2,040 views
European Banking Authority
n=32 · top quartile share 53.1% · 2,488 views
Copernicus Programme
n=16 · top quartile share 31.3% · 1,038 views
European Central Bank
n=31 · top quartile share 32.3% · 2,737 views
European Data Protection Board
n=40 · top quartile share 30% · 3,024 views
Council of the European Union
n=5 · top quartile share 40% · 273 views
Europol
n=19 · top quartile share 21.1% · 1,284 views
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
n=18 · top quartile share 16.7% · 1,131 views
European Investment Bank
n=26 · top quartile share 19.2% · 1,660 views
European Commission
n=17 · top quartile share 17.6% · 1,163 views
European Data Protection Supervisor
n=9 · top quartile share 11.1% · 497 views
Eurojust
n=29 · top quartile share 13.8% · 1,591 views
European Food Safety Authority
n=7 · top quartile share 0% · 354 views
European Parliament
n=17 · top quartile share 5.9% · 854 views
European Economic and Social Committee
n=21 · top quartile share 4.8% · 887 views
Categories
avg within-week percentileFinancial Regulation outperforms by a wide margin (65.7 percentile), while EU Policy & Law sits 33.8 points behind. The gap is the actionable signal: readers reward one category, not the other.
Financial Regulation
n=47 · top quartile share 46.8%
Digital & Technology
n=50 · top quartile share 26%
Climate & Energy
n=31 · top quartile share 19.4%
Economy & Trade
n=57 · top quartile share 24.6%
Rights & Society
n=55 · top quartile share 20%
Security & Foreign Affairs
n=52 · top quartile share 19.2%
EU Policy & Law
n=50 · top quartile share 16%
Story threads
avg percentile, Wikipedia deltaGDPR Enforcement Updates ranks first at 73.4 percentile. Wikipedia pageviews for General Data Protection Regulation rose 84% during the GDPR Enforcement Updates coverage window, suggesting broader public attention moved with our readers.
n=19 · WP General Data Protection Regulation: +83.8%
n=34 · WP Financial regulation: +3.7%
n=6 · WP Online radicalization: -3.7%
n=13 · WP Climate change in the European Union: -2.3%
n=29 · WP Healthcare in the European Union: -13.5%
n=13 · WP European Central Bank: -12.7%
n=6 · WP Economy of the European Union: -35.8%
n=6 · WP Russian invasion of Ukraine: -10.5%
n=6 · WP Immigration to Europe: -30.8%
n=17 · WP Cybercrime: -21.4%
n=16 · no Wikipedia mapping
n=9 · no Wikipedia mapping
n=5 · no Wikipedia mapping
n=7 · no Wikipedia mapping
n=6 · no Wikipedia mapping
Top 20 items
highest week-percentileEMA Recommends New Lung Cancer Treatment (European Medicines Agency) leads the period with 201 views, scoring 100.0 percentile in its publication week.
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1.EMA Recommends New Lung Cancer Treatment100.0
2026-03-29 · European Medicines Agency · 201 views
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2.EDPB clarifies data processing for scientific research100.0
2026-04-17 · European Data Protection Board · 276 views
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4.EMA Recommends 12 New Medicines for EU Approval100.0
2026-03-04 · European Medicines Agency · 168 views
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5.G7 Leaders Reaffirm Unwavering Support for Ukraine100.0
2026-03-01 · Council of the European Union · 66 views
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6.ECB Staff Projections for Euro Area Economy (March 2026)100.0
2026-04-09 · European Central Bank · 525 views
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8.EDPB Focuses on GDPR Transparency Enforcement100.0
2026-04-03 · European Data Protection Board · 167 views
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9.ESAs Highlight Geopolitical, Private Finance Risks98.5
2026-03-31 · European Banking Authority · 151 views
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11.Regulators Warn of Stability Risks from Shadow Banking97.6
2026-03-04 · European Systemic Risk Board · 114 views
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12.EIB provides €225M to Iren for Circular Economy97.6
2026-03-13 · European Investment Bank · 141 views
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13.EDPB: GDPR Enforcement Action on Transparency97.3
2026-03-24 · European Data Protection Board · 198 views
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14.Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Enters Force97.1
2026-04-13 · European Commission · 174 views
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15.ECB: Digital euro ensures resilience in payments97.0
2026-04-02 · European Central Bank · 138 views
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16.ECB Proposes New Growth Model to Boost EU Scale96.8
2026-03-01 · European Central Bank · 63 views
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19.EMA: New treatment for relapsed lung cancer approved95.5
2026-04-01 · European Medicines Agency · 124 views
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20.Privacy Board Warns of AI-Generated Imagery Risks95.1
2026-03-03 · European Data Protection Board · 109 views
Methodology
Every digest item is scored against other items published in the same calendar week using
PostgreSQL's PERCENT_RANK(). A score of 100 means the item was the most-read of its week,
0 means it was the least-read. This normalisation removes audience-growth effects, so a top story from
a small-audience week is treated identically to a top story from a high-audience week.
Items published in the last 28 days are excluded because their view counts have not yet matured. Buckets (institutions, categories, threads) are only ranked once they contain at least 5 items, to avoid noise from one-off viral pieces.
Wikipedia pageview deltas compare the average daily views of a topic's English Wikipedia article during the thread's active window vs the 30 days immediately before. A large positive delta is a sanity check that broader public interest moved in the same direction as our reader engagement, not just euroneo's small audience.
Caveats: this measures reader engagement among an audience that opted into EU coverage. It is a proxy for broader public attention, not a direct measurement. Translation availability, feature image presence, starring, and digest position all confound the signal somewhat.