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 (65.6 from n=8) but the strongest reach at scale is European Central Bank (42.5 across 10 items).
European Banking Authority
n=8 · top quartile share 25% · 446 views
European Central Bank
n=10 · top quartile share 20% · 456 views
European Investment Bank
n=8 · top quartile share 12.5% · 381 views
Categories
avg within-week percentileFinancial Regulation outperforms by a wide margin (56.9 percentile), while Economy & Trade sits 17.7 points behind. The gap is the actionable signal: readers reward one category, not the other.
Financial Regulation
n=12 · top quartile share 25%
Security & Foreign Affairs
n=8 · top quartile share 25%
Economy & Trade
n=17 · top quartile share 17.6%
Story threads
avg percentile, Wikipedia deltaTop 20 items
highest week-percentileEU Body: Cut Barriers to Boost Business Competitiveness (European Economic and Social Committee) leads the period with 79 views, scoring 100.0 percentile in its publication week.
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1.EU Body: Cut Barriers to Boost Business Competitiveness100.0
2026-08-01 · European Economic and Social Committee · 79 views
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2.Europe nears hepatitis elimination target, gaps remain100.0
2026-08-03 · European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · 75 views
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3.EBA Consults on Operational Risk Management100.0
2026-08-27 · European Banking Authority · 50 views
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5.Slovakia secures €50M for power-grid upgrades88.2
2026-08-04 · European Investment Bank · 73 views
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7.ECB's Cipollone on Europe's Tokenised Financial Market85.7
2026-08-27 · European Central Bank · 43 views
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10.EU Watchdogs Warn of AI Risks in Financial Sector75.0
2026-08-01 · European Banking Authority · 76 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 · 49 views
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12.EBA Responds to Parliament on 2024 Discharge71.4
2026-08-28 · European Banking Authority · 40 views
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13.EESC explores urban decarbonisation in Vienna71.4
2026-08-12 · European Economic and Social Committee · 56 views
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15.ECB and Frankfurt Radio Symphony host Europa Open Air71.4
2026-08-12 · European Central Bank · 56 views
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16.EBA clarifies market risk framework for EU banks70.6
2026-08-04 · European Banking Authority · 65 views
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17.EBA Consults on ISDA Margin Model Reporting64.7
2026-08-06 · European Banking Authority · 64 views
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18.New EFSA Management Board Takes Office58.8
2026-08-05 · European Food Safety Authority · 63 views
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19.ESMA Confirms Weekly Commodity Derivatives Reporting Go-Live57.1
2026-08-15 · European Securities and Markets Authority · 52 views
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20.EIB Approves €9.2 Billion for EU Business & Energy57.1
2026-08-28 · European Investment Bank · 39 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.