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.
March 2026 edition: 176 items, n ≥ 5 per bucket.
Institutions
avg within-week percentileEuropean Banking Authority leads with an average within-week percentile of 79.7 across 16 items.
European Banking Authority
n=16 · top quartile share 68.8% · 1,666 views
European Medicines Agency
n=11 · top quartile share 36.4% · 1,342 views
Copernicus Programme
n=5 · top quartile share 60% · 414 views
European Central Bank
n=19 · top quartile share 21.1% · 1,551 views
European Data Protection Board
n=22 · top quartile share 18.2% · 1,861 views
Europol
n=12 · top quartile share 16.7% · 974 views
European Investment Bank
n=11 · top quartile share 9.1% · 866 views
Eurojust
n=15 · top quartile share 20% · 1,083 views
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
n=8 · top quartile share 25% · 594 views
European Parliament
n=11 · top quartile share 9.1% · 705 views
European Data Protection Supervisor
n=7 · top quartile share 0% · 432 views
European Economic and Social Committee
n=13 · top quartile share 0% · 691 views
Categories
avg within-week percentileFinancial Regulation outperforms by a wide margin (73.5 percentile), while EU Policy & Law sits 39.1 points behind. The gap is the actionable signal: readers reward one category, not the other.
Financial Regulation
n=27 · top quartile share 59.3%
Climate & Energy
n=8 · top quartile share 37.5%
Digital & Technology
n=29 · top quartile share 13.8%
Economy & Trade
n=29 · top quartile share 13.8%
Security & Foreign Affairs
n=29 · top quartile share 20.7%
Rights & Society
n=28 · top quartile share 21.4%
EU Policy & Law
n=26 · top quartile share 15.4%
Story threads
avg percentile, Wikipedia deltaFinancial Stability Regulation ranks first at 77.6 percentile. Wikipedia pageviews for General Data Protection Regulation rose 140% during the GDPR Enforcement Updates coverage window, suggesting broader public attention moved with our readers.
n=24 · WP Financial regulation: +10.5%
n=8 · WP General Data Protection Regulation: +140.2%
n=17 · WP Healthcare in the European Union: -16.1%
n=10 · WP European Central Bank: -12.2%
n=13 · WP Cybercrime: -22.1%
n=6 · WP Russian invasion of Ukraine: -10.5%
Top 20 items
highest week-percentileEMA Highlights from March PRAC Meeting (European Medicines Agency) leads the period with 154 views, scoring 100.0 percentile in its publication week.
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3.EMA Recommends 12 New Medicines for EU Approval100.0
2026-03-04 · European Medicines Agency · 219 views
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4.ECB Proposes New Growth Model to Boost EU Scale100.0
2026-03-01 · European Central Bank · 81 views
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5.ESAs Highlight Geopolitical, Private Finance Risks100.0
2026-03-31 · European Banking Authority · 177 views
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6.EMA Recommends New Lung Cancer Treatment100.0
2026-03-29 · European Medicines Agency · 220 views
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7.EIB provides €225M to Iren for Circular Economy97.6
2026-03-13 · European Investment Bank · 153 views
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8.Regulators Warn of Stability Risks from Shadow Banking97.6
2026-03-04 · European Systemic Risk Board · 131 views
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9.EDPB: GDPR Enforcement Action on Transparency97.3
2026-03-24 · European Data Protection Board · 219 views
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11.Privacy Board Warns of AI-Generated Imagery Risks95.1
2026-03-03 · European Data Protection Board · 121 views
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12.Eurosystem Unveils Appia Roadmap for Tokenised Finance95.1
2026-03-15 · European Central Bank · 130 views
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14.ECB: Consumer Expectations Survey - February 202693.3
2026-03-31 · European Central Bank · 123 views
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15.EU Markets Face High-Risk Environment in 202693.3
2026-03-17 · European Securities and Markets Authority · 131 views
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16.ECDC & Africa CDC Strengthen Health Security Ties92.7
2026-03-10 · European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · 127 views
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17.EBA Issues Capital Rules for Non-EU Bank Branches92.7
2026-03-03 · European Banking Authority · 117 views
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19.Council Approves Cut in Corporate Sustainability Red Tape90.2
2026-03-03 · Council of the European Union · 99 views
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20.EU Reference Labs for Public Health - Open Calls90.2
2026-03-15 · European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · 110 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.