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 Centre for Disease Prevention and Control tops the list (59.4 from n=5) but the strongest reach at scale is European Investment Bank (46.3 across 21 items).
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
n=5 · top quartile share 60% · 183 views
Eurojust
n=7 · top quartile share 28.6% · 269 views
European Banking Authority
n=5 · top quartile share 0% · 151 views
Court of Justice of the European Union
n=9 · top quartile share 22.2% · 294 views
European Investment Bank
n=21 · top quartile share 23.8% · 654 views
European Central Bank
n=7 · top quartile share 14.3% · 144 views
European Data Protection Board
n=5 · top quartile share 0% · 147 views
Europol
n=10 · top quartile share 40% · 308 views
European Economic and Social Committee
n=12 · top quartile share 8.3% · 325 views
Categories
avg within-week percentileRights & Society outperforms by a wide margin (63.6 percentile), while Digital & Technology sits 28.4 points behind. The gap is the actionable signal: readers reward one category, not the other.
Rights & Society
n=14 · top quartile share 57.1%
Financial Regulation
n=16 · top quartile share 31.3%
Security & Foreign Affairs
n=21 · top quartile share 28.6%
Economy & Trade
n=28 · top quartile share 21.4%
EU Policy & Law
n=20 · top quartile share 15%
Digital & Technology
n=6 · top quartile share 0%
Story threads
avg percentile, Wikipedia deltaCJEU Rulings Impact ranks first at 53.4 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-percentileESMA Publishes First-Ever EU Market Cap Data (null) leads the period with 51 views, scoring 100.0 percentile in its publication week.
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5.EU body backs 'Made in Europe' industrial plan100.0
2026-07-21 · European Economic and Social Committee · 38 views
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7.EMA Panel Issues New Safety Info for Contraceptives96.0
2026-07-11 · European Medicines Agency · 59 views
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8.EIB & Bpifrance Fund Renewables, Defence with €650M95.2
2026-07-04 · European Investment Bank · 50 views
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9.EIB Funds Greek Defence Sector in First-Ever Bank Partnership94.1
2026-07-22 · European Investment Bank · 37 views
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10.EU Court Clarifies GDPR 'Large-Scale' Data Processing92.3
2026-07-14 · Court of Justice of the European Union · 43 views
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11.EIB & ESA Launch First-Ever Fund for Aerospace SMEs92.0
2026-07-09 · European Investment Bank · 58 views
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12.EU Panel Recommends 12 New Medicines for Approval90.9
2026-07-27 · European Medicines Agency · 19 views
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14.ECDC Warns of Rising Drug-Resistant Gonorrhoea in EU88.5
2026-07-17 · European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · 42 views
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16.EMA Fast-Tracks Review of New Pancreatic Cancer Drug88.0
2026-07-09 · European Medicines Agency · 55 views
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17.EU Top Court Rules on FIFA's Football Agent Rules84.6
2026-07-19 · Court of Justice of the European Union · 40 views
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19.EU banks on track to meet stability targets82.4
2026-07-21 · Single Resolution Board · 34 views
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20.ECB: Negotiated Wages Grew 2.7% in Early 202781.8
2026-07-30 · European Central Bank · 18 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.