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 percentileCopernicus Programme leads with an average within-week percentile of 62.0 across 11 items.
Copernicus Programme
n=11 · top quartile share 18.2% · 916 views
European Medicines Agency
n=14 · top quartile share 35.7% · 1,587 views
Europol
n=10 · top quartile share 40% · 849 views
European Data Protection Board
n=19 · top quartile share 42.1% · 1,913 views
European Banking Authority
n=21 · top quartile share 33.3% · 1,774 views
European Central Bank
n=14 · top quartile share 35.7% · 1,984 views
European Investment Bank
n=19 · top quartile share 21.1% · 1,463 views
European Food Safety Authority
n=6 · top quartile share 16.7% · 425 views
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
n=10 · top quartile share 10% · 787 views
European Commission
n=19 · top quartile share 21.1% · 1,522 views
Eurojust
n=15 · top quartile share 13.3% · 970 views
European Parliament
n=9 · top quartile share 0% · 562 views
European Economic and Social Committee
n=13 · top quartile share 0% · 628 views
Categories
avg within-week percentileDigital & Technology outperforms by a wide margin (60.5 percentile), while EU Policy & Law sits 34.5 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 32%
Rights & Society
n=33 · top quartile share 21.2%
Climate & Energy
n=24 · top quartile share 12.5%
Security & Foreign Affairs
n=28 · top quartile share 32.1%
Economy & Trade
n=35 · top quartile share 25.7%
EU Policy & Law
n=32 · top quartile share 9.4%
Story threads
avg percentile, Wikipedia deltaGDPR Enforcement Updates ranks first at 71.9 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=13 · WP General Data Protection Regulation: -31.9%
n=13 · WP Financial regulation: -26.8%
n=5 · WP Food safety: -27.9%
n=12 · WP Healthcare in the European Union: +18.8%
n=11 · WP Climate change in the European Union: -18.9%
n=5 · WP Human trafficking: +2.2%
n=16 · WP Renewable energy in the European Union: +12.9%
n=6 · WP Circular economy: +6.5%
n=5 · WP Artificial Intelligence Act: +13.7%
Top 20 items
highest week-percentileOLAF Uncovers Major VAT and Customs Fraud (European Anti-Fraud Office) leads the period with 152 views, scoring 100.0 percentile in its publication week.
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1.OLAF Uncovers Major VAT and Customs Fraud100.0
2026-04-29 · European Anti-Fraud Office · 152 views
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2.ECB Staff Projections for Euro Area Economy (March 2026)100.0
2026-04-09 · European Central Bank · 796 views
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3.EMA recommends first RNA veterinary vaccine authorisation100.0
2026-04-21 · European Medicines Agency · 281 views
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4.EDPB Focuses on GDPR Transparency Enforcement100.0
2026-04-03 · European Data Protection Board · 200 views
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5.EDPB clarifies data processing for scientific research100.0
2026-04-17 · European Data Protection Board · 318 views
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7.EMA: New treatment for relapsed lung cancer approved98.0
2026-04-01 · European Medicines Agency · 163 views
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8.OLAF Report 2025: €597 million recovered from fraud97.1
2026-04-22 · European Anti-Fraud Office · 158 views
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9.Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Enters Force97.1
2026-04-13 · European Commission · 197 views
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11.Safe2Eat 2026: Science-backed guidance for Europeans95.7
2026-04-27 · European Food Safety Authority · 82 views
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12.EMA Recommends First RNA Veterinary Vaccine94.3
2026-04-18 · European Medicines Agency · 190 views
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13.EU lists two entities for Russian hybrid threats94.3
2026-04-23 · Council of the European Union · 104 views
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14.EDPB Annual Report 2025: Guidance & Dialogue94.2
2026-04-10 · European Data Protection Board · 163 views
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15.Lung Cancer: New Treatment Approved in the EU94.1
2026-04-05 · European Medicines Agency · 159 views
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16.ECB: Digital euro ensures resilience in payments94.1
2026-04-02 · European Central Bank · 159 views
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17.ESAs Spring Risk Update: Geopolitics & Finance92.3
2026-04-06 · European Banking Authority · 149 views
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20.EBA Responds to EU Banking Competitiveness Consultation91.4
2026-04-18 · European Banking Authority · 147 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.