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.
May 2026 edition: 145 items, n ≥ 5 per bucket.
Institutions
avg within-week percentileEuropean Data Protection Board tops the list (79.9 from n=6) but the strongest reach at scale is Eurojust (55.1 across 16 items).
European Data Protection Board
n=6 · top quartile share 83.3% · 977 views
European Banking Authority
n=9 · top quartile share 33.3% · 1,402 views
European Medicines Agency
n=9 · top quartile share 44.4% · 2,537 views
European Commission
n=9 · top quartile share 22.2% · 1,302 views
Europol
n=8 · top quartile share 25% · 932 views
Eurojust
n=16 · top quartile share 25% · 2,073 views
European Central Bank
n=15 · top quartile share 40% · 2,251 views
Copernicus Programme
n=5 · top quartile share 20% · 634 views
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
n=11 · top quartile share 18.2% · 1,868 views
European Food Safety Authority
n=5 · top quartile share 20% · 627 views
European Investment Bank
n=14 · top quartile share 7.1% · 1,615 views
European Parliament
n=6 · top quartile share 16.7% · 719 views
European Data Protection Supervisor
n=8 · top quartile share 12.5% · 912 views
European Economic and Social Committee
n=10 · top quartile share 0% · 1,003 views
Categories
avg within-week percentileFinancial Regulation outperforms by a wide margin (68.9 percentile), while Climate & Energy sits 33.3 points behind. The gap is the actionable signal: readers reward one category, not the other.
Financial Regulation
n=15 · top quartile share 26.7%
Security & Foreign Affairs
n=26 · top quartile share 26.9%
Rights & Society
n=25 · top quartile share 28%
Digital & Technology
n=15 · top quartile share 40%
Economy & Trade
n=27 · top quartile share 22.2%
EU Policy & Law
n=27 · top quartile share 14.8%
Climate & Energy
n=10 · top quartile share 10%
Story threads
avg percentile, Wikipedia deltaFinancial Stability Regulation ranks first at 84.1 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=6 · WP Financial regulation: -17.4%
n=7 · WP General Data Protection Regulation: -15%
n=7 · WP Financial regulation: -15.2%
n=8 · no Wikipedia mapping
n=6 · no Wikipedia mapping
n=7 · WP European Anti-Fraud Office: -4%
n=5 · WP Artificial Intelligence Act: -12.2%
n=5 · WP Climate change in the European Union: -25%
Top 20 items
highest week-percentileNew medicine for pulmonary fibrosis recommended (European Medicines Agency) leads the period with 1407 views, scoring 100.0 percentile in its publication week.
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1.New medicine for pulmonary fibrosis recommended100.0
2026-05-25 · European Medicines Agency · 1407 views
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2.EBA Issues Opinion on Austrian Macroprudential Measure100.0
2026-05-13 · European Banking Authority · 185 views
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3.ECB Reiterates Commitment to 2% Inflation Target100.0
2026-05-01 · European Central Bank · 352 views
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4.ECDC Monitors Suspected Hantavirus Outbreak100.0
2026-05-05 · European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · 719 views
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5.ESRB Seeks New Advisory Scientific Committee Members100.0
2026-05-22 · European Systemic Risk Board · 158 views
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6.EMA Welcomes Political Agreement on Critical Medicines Act97.2
2026-05-13 · European Medicines Agency · 159 views
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7.EBA Amends Guidelines on Definition of Default96.9
2026-05-10 · European Banking Authority · 209 views
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8.ECB Monetary Policy Decisions for Medium-Term Inflation96.9
2026-05-01 · European Central Bank · 186 views
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10.Financial Stability Vulnerabilities Remain Elevated94.4
2026-05-28 · European Central Bank · 348 views
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11.GDPR's 10-Year Evolution in Data Protection93.8
2026-05-01 · European Data Protection Board · 180 views
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12.Directive on corporate sustainability due diligence enters into force93.8
2026-05-07 · European Commission · 204 views
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13.Marking 10 Years of GDPR: Evolution of EU Data Protection91.7
2026-05-14 · European Data Protection Board · 157 views
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16.Corporate sustainability due diligence directive in force90.6
2026-05-09 · European Commission · 190 views
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17.GDPR's 10th Anniversary: Evolution of Data Protection90.6
2026-05-01 · European Data Protection Board · 179 views
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18.EMA Recommends Updating COVID-19 Vaccines for XFG Variant88.9
2026-05-30 · European Medicines Agency · 164 views
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19.EBA opinion on Austrian macroprudential measure88.9
2026-05-16 · European Banking Authority · 149 views
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20.Pesticide Residues in Food: Latest Data Released87.5
2026-05-10 · European Food Safety Authority · 169 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.