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.
May 2026 edition: 145 items, n ≥ 5 per bucket.
Institutions
avg within-week percentileEuropean Data Protection Board tops the list (80.1 from n=6) but the strongest reach at scale is Eurojust (58.5 across 16 items).
European Data Protection Board
n=6 · top quartile share 83.3% · 369 views
European Medicines Agency
n=9 · top quartile share 55.6% · 448 views
European Banking Authority
n=9 · top quartile share 33.3% · 530 views
European Commission
n=9 · top quartile share 44.4% · 488 views
Eurojust
n=16 · top quartile share 31.3% · 661 views
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
n=11 · top quartile share 27.3% · 964 views
European Central Bank
n=15 · top quartile share 33.3% · 815 views
European Parliament
n=6 · top quartile share 16.7% · 256 views
Europol
n=8 · top quartile share 12.5% · 231 views
European Food Safety Authority
n=5 · top quartile share 20% · 186 views
Copernicus Programme
n=5 · top quartile share 20% · 196 views
European Economic and Social Committee
n=10 · top quartile share 0% · 291 views
European Investment Bank
n=14 · top quartile share 7.1% · 453 views
European Data Protection Supervisor
n=8 · top quartile share 12.5% · 235 views
Categories
avg within-week percentileFinancial Regulation outperforms by a wide margin (58.2 percentile), while Climate & Energy sits 18.8 points behind. The gap is the actionable signal: readers reward one category, not the other.
Financial Regulation
n=15 · top quartile share 26.7%
Rights & Society
n=25 · top quartile share 36%
Security & Foreign Affairs
n=26 · top quartile share 26.9%
Digital & Technology
n=15 · top quartile share 40%
EU Policy & Law
n=27 · top quartile share 18.5%
Economy & Trade
n=27 · top quartile share 22.2%
Climate & Energy
n=10 · top quartile share 10%
Story threads
avg percentile, Wikipedia deltaFinancial Stability Regulation ranks first at 74.9 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=6 · WP Financial regulation: -17.4%
n=7 · WP General Data Protection Regulation: -15%
n=6 · no Wikipedia mapping
n=7 · WP European Anti-Fraud Office: -4%
n=7 · WP Financial regulation: -15.2%
n=5 · WP Artificial Intelligence Act: -12.2%
n=8 · no Wikipedia mapping
n=5 · WP Climate change in the European Union: -25%
Top 20 items
highest week-percentileEurojust Coordinates Takedown of Criminal VPN Network (Eurojust) leads the period with 58 views, scoring 100.0 percentile in its publication week.
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2.ECDC Monitors Suspected Hantavirus Outbreak100.0
2026-05-05 · European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · 599 views
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3.ECB Reiterates Commitment to 2% Inflation Target100.0
2026-05-01 · European Central Bank · 192 views
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4.Financial Stability Vulnerabilities Remain Elevated100.0
2026-05-28 · European Central Bank · 114 views
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5.EBA Issues Opinion on Austrian Macroprudential Measure100.0
2026-05-13 · European Banking Authority · 73 views
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6.EMA Welcomes Political Agreement on Critical Medicines Act97.2
2026-05-13 · European Medicines Agency · 57 views
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7.EBA Amends Guidelines on Definition of Default96.9
2026-05-10 · European Banking Authority · 107 views
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8.ECB Monetary Policy Decisions for Medium-Term Inflation96.9
2026-05-01 · European Central Bank · 94 views
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9.ESRB Seeks New Advisory Scientific Committee Members95.5
2026-05-22 · European Systemic Risk Board · 47 views
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10.EMA Recommends Updating COVID-19 Vaccines for XFG Variant94.4
2026-05-30 · European Medicines Agency · 61 views
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11.Copernicus: Six Years of Daily Satellite Imagery94.4
2026-05-11 · Copernicus Programme · 56 views
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12.Corporate sustainability due diligence directive in force93.8
2026-05-09 · European Commission · 97 views
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16.GDPR's 10-Year Evolution in Data Protection90.6
2026-05-01 · European Data Protection Board · 79 views
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17.Directive on corporate sustainability due diligence enters into force90.6
2026-05-07 · European Commission · 95 views
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20.Marking 10 Years of GDPR: Evolution of Data Protection87.5
2026-05-10 · European Data Protection Board · 67 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.