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.
February 2026 edition: 25 items, n ≥ 5 per bucket.
Institutions
avg within-week percentileCategories
avg within-week percentileStory threads
avg percentile, Wikipedia deltaTop 20 items
highest week-percentileEESC Supports Updated Tobacco Taxation Rules (European Economic and Social Committee) leads the period with 141 views, scoring 100.0 percentile in its publication week.
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1.EESC Supports Updated Tobacco Taxation Rules100.0
2026-02-26 · European Economic and Social Committee · 141 views
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2.New SRB Rules to Prevent Taxpayer-Funded Bank Bailouts95.8
2026-02-27 · Single Resolution Board · 140 views
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3.Christine Lagarde: A new growth model for Europe91.7
2026-02-25 · European Central Bank · 128 views
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4.ECB Sanctions J.P. Morgan for Capital Misreporting87.5
2026-02-26 · European Central Bank · 127 views
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5.EU-Funded Kindergarten Reopens in Western Ukraine83.3
2026-02-26 · European Investment Bank · 123 views
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6.Copernicus Reveals Global Climate Trends for 202579.2
2026-02-26 · Copernicus Programme · 122 views
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7.EDPB supports privacy for AI-generated imagery66.7
2026-02-25 · European Data Protection Board · 120 views
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9.Council simplifies sustainability reporting requirements66.7
2026-02-25 · Council of the European Union · 120 views
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10.Regulators Warn of Bank Ties to 'Shadow Banking'62.5
2026-02-28 · European Systemic Risk Board · 118 views
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11.Council Eases Sustainability Reporting Rules54.2
2026-02-28 · Council of the European Union · 116 views
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12.EDPB Highlights Challenges to GDPR Right to Erasure54.2
2026-02-26 · European Data Protection Board · 116 views
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13.EU Investigators Confirm First Charges in Ukraine War Crimes41.7
2026-02-27 · Eurojust · 115 views
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14.ECB Releases January 2026 Consumer Expectations41.7
2026-02-28 · European Central Bank · 115 views
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15.EU Asylum Agency Opens New Offices on Lampedusa41.7
2026-02-27 · European Union Agency for Asylum · 115 views
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16.EU Space Data Deployed to Decarbonize European Aviation37.5
2026-02-27 · Copernicus Programme · 114 views
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17.EBA and ESMA consult on management suitability rules33.3
2026-02-25 · European Banking Authority · 113 views
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18.ECDC: Risk from infant formula recall remains low25.0
2026-02-25 · European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · 112 views
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19.EMA Recommends 12 New Medicines for Approval25.0
2026-02-28 · European Medicines Agency · 112 views
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20.AMR in Foodborne Bacteria Remains a Major Health Risk20.8
2026-02-26 · European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · 109 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.