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 percentileEuropean Banking Authority leads with an average within-week percentile of 64.4 across 21 items.
European Banking Authority
n=21 · top quartile share 42.9% · 3,730 views
European Data Protection Board
n=19 · top quartile share 31.6% · 3,642 views
European Medicines Agency
n=14 · top quartile share 35.7% · 2,922 views
Europol
n=10 · top quartile share 30% · 1,665 views
Copernicus Programme
n=11 · top quartile share 27.3% · 1,839 views
European Central Bank
n=14 · top quartile share 28.6% · 3,231 views
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
n=10 · top quartile share 0% · 1,582 views
European Food Safety Authority
n=6 · top quartile share 16.7% · 888 views
European Investment Bank
n=19 · top quartile share 15.8% · 2,958 views
European Commission
n=19 · top quartile share 26.3% · 3,000 views
European Parliament
n=9 · top quartile share 11.1% · 1,208 views
Eurojust
n=15 · top quartile share 6.7% · 1,972 views
European Economic and Social Committee
n=13 · top quartile share 0% · 1,467 views
Categories
avg within-week percentileFinancial Regulation outperforms by a wide margin (66.0 percentile), while EU Policy & Law sits 38.7 points behind. The gap is the actionable signal: readers reward one category, not the other.
Financial Regulation
n=25 · top quartile share 48%
Digital & Technology
n=24 · top quartile share 37.5%
Rights & Society
n=33 · top quartile share 18.2%
Climate & Energy
n=24 · top quartile share 20.8%
Economy & Trade
n=35 · top quartile share 20%
Security & Foreign Affairs
n=28 · top quartile share 25%
EU Policy & Law
n=32 · top quartile share 12.5%
Story threads
avg percentile, Wikipedia deltaFinancial Stability Regulation ranks first at 79.1 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 Financial regulation: -26.8%
n=13 · WP General Data Protection Regulation: -31.9%
n=12 · WP Healthcare in the European Union: +18.8%
n=5 · WP Food safety: -27.9%
n=11 · WP Climate change in the European Union: -18.9%
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-percentileEDPB Focuses on GDPR Transparency Enforcement (European Data Protection Board) leads the period with 319 views, scoring 100.0 percentile in its publication week.
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1.EDPB Focuses on GDPR Transparency Enforcement100.0
2026-04-03 · European Data Protection Board · 319 views
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2.ECB Staff Projections for Euro Area Economy (March 2026)100.0
2026-04-09 · European Central Bank · 975 views
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3.OLAF Uncovers Major VAT and Customs Fraud100.0
2026-04-29 · European Anti-Fraud Office · 249 views
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4.EMA recommends first RNA veterinary vaccine authorisation100.0
2026-04-21 · European Medicines Agency · 455 views
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5.EDPB clarifies data processing for scientific research100.0
2026-04-17 · European Data Protection Board · 414 views
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7.EMA: New treatment for relapsed lung cancer approved98.0
2026-04-01 · European Medicines Agency · 276 views
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8.EMA Recommends First RNA Veterinary Vaccine97.1
2026-04-18 · European Medicines Agency · 353 views
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9.OLAF Report 2025: €597 million recovered from fraud97.1
2026-04-22 · European Anti-Fraud Office · 254 views
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11.Lung Cancer: New Treatment Approved in the EU96.1
2026-04-05 · European Medicines Agency · 265 views
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12.Safe2Eat 2026: Science-backed guidance for Europeans95.7
2026-04-27 · European Food Safety Authority · 184 views
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13.Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Enters Force94.3
2026-04-13 · European Commission · 287 views
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14.ESAs Spring Risk Update: Geopolitics & Finance94.2
2026-04-06 · European Banking Authority · 262 views
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15.ECB: Digital euro ensures resilience in payments94.1
2026-04-02 · European Central Bank · 258 views
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16.EDPB Annual Report 2025: Guidance & Dialogue92.3
2026-04-10 · European Data Protection Board · 256 views
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17.ESAs spring risk update highlights geopolitical risks92.2
2026-04-03 · European Banking Authority · 238 views
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19.EIB Group confirms EUR 2.4 billion for energy, deep tech91.4
2026-04-21 · European Investment Bank · 175 views
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20.EBA Responds to EU Banking Competitiveness Consultation91.4
2026-04-18 · European Banking Authority · 257 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.