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.
April 2026 edition: 201 items, n ≥ 5 per bucket.
Institutions
avg within-week percentileEuropol leads with an average within-week percentile of 61.3 across 10 items.
Europol
n=10 · top quartile share 50% · 1,133 views
European Banking Authority
n=21 · top quartile share 33.3% · 2,499 views
European Medicines Agency
n=14 · top quartile share 35.7% · 2,145 views
Copernicus Programme
n=11 · top quartile share 27.3% · 1,268 views
European Data Protection Board
n=19 · top quartile share 31.6% · 2,570 views
European Central Bank
n=14 · top quartile share 28.6% · 2,493 views
European Investment Bank
n=19 · top quartile share 21.1% · 2,019 views
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
n=10 · top quartile share 0% · 1,068 views
European Food Safety Authority
n=6 · top quartile share 16.7% · 581 views
European Commission
n=19 · top quartile share 26.3% · 2,047 views
European Parliament
n=9 · top quartile share 11.1% · 799 views
Eurojust
n=15 · top quartile share 13.3% · 1,330 views
European Economic and Social Committee
n=13 · top quartile share 0% · 933 views
Categories
avg within-week percentileFinancial Regulation outperforms by a wide margin (62.5 percentile), while EU Policy & Law sits 35.0 points behind. The gap is the actionable signal: readers reward one category, not the other.
Financial Regulation
n=25 · top quartile share 36%
Digital & Technology
n=24 · top quartile share 33.3%
Rights & Society
n=33 · top quartile share 21.2%
Economy & Trade
n=35 · top quartile share 22.9%
Climate & Energy
n=24 · top quartile share 20.8%
Security & Foreign Affairs
n=28 · top quartile share 35.7%
EU Policy & Law
n=32 · top quartile share 12.5%
Story threads
avg percentile, Wikipedia deltaGDPR Enforcement Updates ranks first at 75.2 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=13 · WP General Data Protection Regulation: -31.9%
n=13 · WP Financial regulation: -26.8%
n=12 · WP Healthcare in the European Union: +18.8%
n=11 · WP Climate change in the European Union: -18.9%
n=5 · WP Food safety: -27.9%
n=5 · WP Human trafficking: +2.2%
n=16 · WP Renewable energy in the European Union: +12.9%
n=5 · WP Artificial Intelligence Act: +13.7%
n=6 · WP Circular economy: +6.5%
Top 20 items
highest week-percentileEMA recommends first RNA veterinary vaccine authorisation (European Medicines Agency) leads the period with 372 views, scoring 100.0 percentile in its publication week.
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1.EMA recommends first RNA veterinary vaccine authorisation100.0
2026-04-21 · European Medicines Agency · 372 views
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2.EDPB Focuses on GDPR Transparency Enforcement100.0
2026-04-03 · European Data Protection Board · 265 views
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3.EDPB clarifies data processing for scientific research100.0
2026-04-17 · European Data Protection Board · 350 views
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4.ECB Staff Projections for Euro Area Economy (March 2026)100.0
2026-04-09 · European Central Bank · 909 views
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5.OLAF Uncovers Major VAT and Customs Fraud100.0
2026-04-29 · European Anti-Fraud Office · 182 views
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7.EMA: New treatment for relapsed lung cancer approved98.0
2026-04-01 · European Medicines Agency · 220 views
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8.OLAF Report 2025: €597 million recovered from fraud97.1
2026-04-22 · European Anti-Fraud Office · 205 views
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9.EMA Recommends First RNA Veterinary Vaccine97.1
2026-04-18 · European Medicines Agency · 289 views
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11.Lung Cancer: New Treatment Approved in the EU96.1
2026-04-05 · European Medicines Agency · 204 views
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12.Safe2Eat 2026: Science-backed guidance for Europeans95.7
2026-04-27 · European Food Safety Authority · 121 views
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13.Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Enters Force94.3
2026-04-13 · European Commission · 230 views
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14.EIB Group confirms EUR 2.4 billion for energy, deep tech94.3
2026-04-21 · European Investment Bank · 134 views
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15.ESAs Spring Risk Update: Geopolitics & Finance94.2
2026-04-06 · European Banking Authority · 198 views
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16.ECB: Digital euro ensures resilience in payments94.1
2026-04-02 · European Central Bank · 200 views
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17.EDPB Annual Report 2025: Guidance & Dialogue92.3
2026-04-10 · European Data Protection Board · 194 views
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18.ESAs spring risk update highlights geopolitical risks92.2
2026-04-03 · European Banking Authority · 171 views
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19.EBA Responds to EU Banking Competitiveness Consultation91.4
2026-04-18 · European Banking Authority · 195 views
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20.EU lists two entities for Russian hybrid threats91.4
2026-04-23 · Council of the European Union · 124 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.