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.
April 2026 edition: 201 items, n ≥ 5 per bucket.
Institutions
avg within-week percentileEuropean Data Protection Board leads with an average within-week percentile of 65.1 across 19 items.
European Data Protection Board
n=19 · top quartile share 36.8% · 4,118 views
European Banking Authority
n=21 · top quartile share 42.9% · 4,207 views
Europol
n=10 · top quartile share 30% · 1,895 views
European Medicines Agency
n=14 · top quartile share 35.7% · 3,255 views
Copernicus Programme
n=11 · top quartile share 27.3% · 2,073 views
European Central Bank
n=14 · top quartile share 21.4% · 3,490 views
European Food Safety Authority
n=6 · top quartile share 16.7% · 1,011 views
European Investment Bank
n=19 · top quartile share 15.8% · 3,352 views
European Commission
n=19 · top quartile share 26.3% · 3,402 views
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
n=10 · top quartile share 0% · 1,757 views
European Parliament
n=9 · top quartile share 11.1% · 1,357 views
Eurojust
n=15 · top quartile share 13.3% · 2,213 views
European Economic and Social Committee
n=13 · top quartile share 0% · 1,649 views
Categories
avg within-week percentileDigital & Technology outperforms by a wide margin (67.3 percentile), while EU Policy & Law sits 39.4 points behind. The gap is the actionable signal: readers reward one category, not the other.
Digital & Technology
n=24 · top quartile share 41.7%
Financial Regulation
n=25 · top quartile share 48%
Rights & Society
n=33 · top quartile share 18.2%
Climate & Energy
n=24 · top quartile share 20.8%
Security & Foreign Affairs
n=28 · top quartile share 28.6%
Economy & Trade
n=35 · top quartile share 17.1%
EU Policy & Law
n=32 · top quartile share 12.5%
Story threads
avg percentile, Wikipedia deltaFinancial Stability Regulation ranks first at 80.2 percentile. Wikipedia deltas are mostly flat or negative across the top threads, meaning these stories landed with our readers but did not spike wider public interest.
n=13 · WP Financial regulation: -26.8%
n=13 · WP General Data Protection Regulation: -31.9%
n=5 · WP Food safety: -27.9%
n=5 · WP Human trafficking: +2.2%
n=12 · WP Healthcare in the European Union: +18.8%
n=11 · WP Climate change in the European Union: -18.9%
n=16 · WP Renewable energy in the European Union: +12.9%
n=5 · WP Artificial Intelligence Act: +13.7%
n=6 · WP Circular economy: +6.5%
Top 20 items
highest week-percentileECB Staff Projections for Euro Area Economy (March 2026) (European Central Bank) leads the period with 1005 views, scoring 100.0 percentile in its publication week.
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1.ECB Staff Projections for Euro Area Economy (March 2026)100.0
2026-04-09 · European Central Bank · 1005 views
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2.EDPB clarifies data processing for scientific research100.0
2026-04-17 · European Data Protection Board · 442 views
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3.EDPB Focuses on GDPR Transparency Enforcement100.0
2026-04-03 · European Data Protection Board · 346 views
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4.EMA recommends first RNA veterinary vaccine authorisation100.0
2026-04-21 · European Medicines Agency · 501 views
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5.OLAF Uncovers Major VAT and Customs Fraud100.0
2026-04-29 · European Anti-Fraud Office · 274 views
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7.EMA: New treatment for relapsed lung cancer approved98.0
2026-04-01 · European Medicines Agency · 296 views
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8.EMA Recommends First RNA Veterinary Vaccine97.1
2026-04-18 · European Medicines Agency · 389 views
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9.OLAF Report 2025: €597 million recovered from fraud97.1
2026-04-22 · European Anti-Fraud Office · 274 views
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11.Lung Cancer: New Treatment Approved in the EU96.1
2026-04-05 · European Medicines Agency · 283 views
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12.Safe2Eat 2026: Science-backed guidance for Europeans95.7
2026-04-27 · European Food Safety Authority · 214 views
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13.Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Enters Force94.3
2026-04-13 · European Commission · 311 views
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15.ECB: Digital euro ensures resilience in payments94.1
2026-04-02 · European Central Bank · 281 views
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16.EDPB Annual Report 2025: Guidance & Dialogue92.3
2026-04-10 · European Data Protection Board · 285 views
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17.ESAs Spring Risk Update: Geopolitics & Finance92.3
2026-04-06 · European Banking Authority · 285 views
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18.ESAs spring risk update highlights geopolitical risks92.2
2026-04-03 · European Banking Authority · 267 views
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19.EIB Group confirms EUR 2.4 billion for energy, deep tech91.4
2026-04-21 · European Investment Bank · 193 views
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20.EBA Responds to EU Banking Competitiveness Consultation91.4
2026-04-18 · European Banking Authority · 276 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.
Each report covers one full calendar month and only publishes once that month has ended. Because items are ranked against others from the same week, pieces of similar age are always compared head to head, so the ranking holds up even right after the month closes. 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.