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.
August 2026 edition: 44 items, n ≥ 5 per bucket.
Institutions
avg within-week percentileEuropean Banking Authority tops the list (62.6 from n=8) but the strongest reach at scale is European Central Bank (44.3 across 10 items).
European Banking Authority
n=8 · top quartile share 25% · 245 views
European Central Bank
n=10 · top quartile share 30% · 247 views
European Investment Bank
n=8 · top quartile share 12.5% · 222 views
Categories
avg within-week percentileFinancial Regulation outperforms by a wide margin (56.6 percentile), while Economy & Trade sits 15.9 points behind. The gap is the actionable signal: readers reward one category, not the other.
Financial Regulation
n=12 · top quartile share 16.7%
Security & Foreign Affairs
n=8 · top quartile share 37.5%
Economy & Trade
n=17 · top quartile share 23.5%
Story threads
avg percentile, Wikipedia deltaTop 20 items
highest week-percentileDefence Spending Rise and Euro Area Economy (European Central Bank) leads the period with 27 views, scoring 100.0 percentile in its publication week.
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3.EBA Responds to Parliament on 2024 Discharge100.0
2026-08-28 · European Banking Authority · 19 views
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4.Europe nears hepatitis elimination target, gaps remain100.0
2026-08-03 · European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · 54 views
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5.EU Body: Cut Barriers to Boost Business Competitiveness100.0
2026-08-01 · European Economic and Social Committee · 54 views
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6.Slovakia secures €50M for power-grid upgrades94.1
2026-08-04 · European Investment Bank · 50 views
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8.ECB and Frankfurt Radio Symphony host Europa Open Air85.7
2026-08-12 · European Central Bank · 31 views
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9.ECB's Cipollone on Europe's Tokenised Financial Market85.7
2026-08-27 · European Central Bank · 18 views
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11.Europe Must Upgrade Mosquito Control as Disease Risks Rise75.0
2026-08-21 · European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · 22 views
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12.EU Watchdogs Warn of AI Risks in Financial Sector75.0
2026-08-01 · European Banking Authority · 51 views
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13.EBA Consults on Operational Risk Management71.4
2026-08-27 · European Banking Authority · 15 views
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14.EESC explores urban decarbonisation in Vienna71.4
2026-08-12 · European Economic and Social Committee · 28 views
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15.SRB: Banks ready for operational resolution70.6
2026-08-03 · Single Resolution Board · 39 views
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16.EBA ESG Risk Dashboard Shows Stable Climate Risk70.6
2026-08-09 · European Banking Authority · 39 views
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17.New EFSA Management Board Takes Office64.7
2026-08-05 · European Food Safety Authority · 38 views
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18.ESMA Confirms Weekly Commodity Derivatives Reporting Go-Live57.1
2026-08-15 · European Securities and Markets Authority · 25 views
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19.EBA Consults on ISDA Margin Model Reporting52.9
2026-08-06 · European Banking Authority · 37 views
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20.EBA clarifies market risk framework for EU banks52.9
2026-08-04 · European Banking Authority · 37 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.