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-percentileChristine Lagarde: A new growth model for Europe (European Central Bank) leads the period with 57 views, scoring 100.0 percentile in its publication week.
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1.Christine Lagarde: A new growth model for Europe100.0
2026-02-25 · European Central Bank · 57 views
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2.New SRB Rules to Prevent Taxpayer-Funded Bank Bailouts95.8
2026-02-27 · Single Resolution Board · 56 views
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3.EESC Supports Updated Tobacco Taxation Rules91.7
2026-02-26 · European Economic and Social Committee · 53 views
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4.Copernicus Reveals Global Climate Trends for 202583.3
2026-02-26 · Copernicus Programme · 43 views
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5.AMR in Foodborne Bacteria Remains a Major Health Risk83.3
2026-02-26 · European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · 43 views
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6.ECDC: Risk from infant formula recall remains low66.7
2026-02-25 · European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · 42 views
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8.ECB Sanctions J.P. Morgan for Capital Misreporting66.7
2026-02-26 · European Central Bank · 42 views
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9.EU-Funded Kindergarten Reopens in Western Ukraine66.7
2026-02-26 · European Investment Bank · 42 views
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10.EDPB supports privacy for AI-generated imagery50.0
2026-02-25 · European Data Protection Board · 41 views
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11.Council Eases Sustainability Reporting Rules50.0
2026-02-28 · Council of the European Union · 41 views
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12.EDPB Highlights Challenges to GDPR Right to Erasure50.0
2026-02-26 · European Data Protection Board · 41 views
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13.EU Asylum Agency Opens New Offices on Lampedusa50.0
2026-02-27 · European Union Agency for Asylum · 41 views
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14.Council simplifies sustainability reporting requirements45.8
2026-02-25 · Council of the European Union · 40 views
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15.EBA and ESMA consult on management suitability rules29.2
2026-02-25 · European Banking Authority · 39 views
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16.EU Space Data Deployed to Decarbonize European Aviation29.2
2026-02-27 · Copernicus Programme · 39 views
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17.EU Investigators Confirm First Charges in Ukraine War Crimes29.2
2026-02-27 · Eurojust · 39 views
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18.Regulators Warn of Bank Ties to 'Shadow Banking'29.2
2026-02-28 · European Systemic Risk Board · 39 views
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19.EMA Recommends 12 New Medicines for Approval16.7
2026-02-28 · European Medicines Agency · 38 views
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20.EU Seizes 3.1 Million Fake Pills in Major Action16.7
2026-02-28 · European Anti-Fraud Office · 38 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.