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.
July 2026 edition: 105 items, n ≥ 5 per bucket.
Institutions
avg within-week percentileEuropean Banking Authority tops the list (59.9 from n=5) but the strongest reach at scale is European Investment Bank (49.1 across 21 items).
European Banking Authority
n=5 · top quartile share 40% · 456 views
Court of Justice of the European Union
n=9 · top quartile share 44.4% · 882 views
Eurojust
n=7 · top quartile share 28.6% · 685 views
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
n=5 · top quartile share 0% · 444 views
European Investment Bank
n=21 · top quartile share 28.6% · 1,884 views
European Data Protection Board
n=5 · top quartile share 20% · 435 views
European Central Bank
n=7 · top quartile share 14.3% · 541 views
Europol
n=10 · top quartile share 20% · 878 views
European Economic and Social Committee
n=12 · top quartile share 8.3% · 923 views
Categories
avg within-week percentileFinancial Regulation outperforms by a wide margin (62.2 percentile), while Digital & Technology sits 22.9 points behind. The gap is the actionable signal: readers reward one category, not the other.
Financial Regulation
n=16 · top quartile share 56.3%
Rights & Society
n=14 · top quartile share 14.3%
Economy & Trade
n=28 · top quartile share 25%
Security & Foreign Affairs
n=21 · top quartile share 19%
EU Policy & Law
n=20 · top quartile share 25%
Digital & Technology
n=6 · top quartile share 16.7%
Story threads
avg percentile, Wikipedia deltaCJEU Rulings Impact ranks first at 65.4 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=7 · no Wikipedia mapping
Top 20 items
highest week-percentileEIB & ESA Launch First-Ever Fund for Aerospace SMEs (European Investment Bank) leads the period with 130 views, scoring 100.0 percentile in its publication week.
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1.EIB & ESA Launch First-Ever Fund for Aerospace SMEs100.0
2026-07-09 · European Investment Bank · 130 views
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5.EU banks on track to meet stability targets100.0
2026-07-21 · Single Resolution Board · 120 views
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6.EU Top Court Rules on FIFA's Football Agent Rules96.2
2026-07-19 · Court of Justice of the European Union · 119 views
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8.EU body backs 'Made in Europe' industrial plan94.1
2026-07-21 · European Economic and Social Committee · 112 views
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9.EU Court Clarifies GDPR 'Large-Scale' Data Processing92.3
2026-07-14 · Court of Justice of the European Union · 117 views
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11.EMA Panel Issues New Safety Info for Contraceptives92.0
2026-07-11 · European Medicines Agency · 127 views
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12.ECB: Negotiated Wages Grew 2.7% in Early 202790.9
2026-07-30 · European Central Bank · 105 views
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13.EIB & Bpifrance Fund Renewables, Defence with €650M90.5
2026-07-04 · European Investment Bank · 116 views
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14.EIB Backs Landmark €3.5B German Green Bond88.5
2026-07-19 · European Investment Bank · 115 views
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15.EIB Funds Greek Defence Sector in First-Ever Bank Partnership88.2
2026-07-22 · European Investment Bank · 108 views
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16.EMA Fast-Tracks Review of New Pancreatic Cancer Drug88.0
2026-07-09 · European Medicines Agency · 124 views
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17.EU Top Court Rules on Broadcasting Ban Under Sanctions85.7
2026-07-05 · Court of Justice of the European Union · 108 views
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18.Data Watchdog Calls for Better Digital Enforcement84.6
2026-07-18 · European Data Protection Board · 111 views
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20.EU Court Rules on Catalan Civil Society Cases82.4
2026-07-20 · Court of Justice of the European Union · 107 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.