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 (79.0 from n=6) but the strongest reach at scale is Eurojust (56.9 across 16 items).
European Data Protection Board
n=6 · top quartile share 83.3% · 592 views
European Medicines Agency
n=9 · top quartile share 55.6% · 1,196 views
European Banking Authority
n=9 · top quartile share 44.4% · 837 views
European Commission
n=9 · top quartile share 33.3% · 814 views
Eurojust
n=16 · top quartile share 25% · 1,229 views
European Central Bank
n=15 · top quartile share 46.7% · 1,509 views
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
n=11 · top quartile share 27.3% · 1,357 views
Europol
n=8 · top quartile share 12.5% · 517 views
Copernicus Programme
n=5 · top quartile share 20% · 360 views
European Parliament
n=6 · top quartile share 16.7% · 423 views
European Food Safety Authority
n=5 · top quartile share 20% · 361 views
European Investment Bank
n=14 · top quartile share 0% · 909 views
European Data Protection Supervisor
n=8 · top quartile share 12.5% · 514 views
European Economic and Social Committee
n=10 · top quartile share 10% · 586 views
Categories
avg within-week percentileFinancial Regulation outperforms by a wide margin (61.2 percentile), while Climate & Energy sits 24.4 points behind. The gap is the actionable signal: readers reward one category, not the other.
Financial Regulation
n=15 · top quartile share 33.3%
Rights & Society
n=25 · top quartile share 36%
Security & Foreign Affairs
n=26 · top quartile share 23.1%
Digital & Technology
n=15 · top quartile share 40%
Economy & Trade
n=27 · top quartile share 25.9%
EU Policy & Law
n=27 · top quartile share 18.5%
Climate & Energy
n=10 · top quartile share 10%
Story threads
avg percentile, Wikipedia deltaFinancial Stability Regulation ranks first at 78.5 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=6 · no Wikipedia mapping
n=7 · WP Financial regulation: -15.2%
n=8 · no Wikipedia mapping
n=7 · WP European Anti-Fraud Office: -4%
n=5 · WP Climate change in the European Union: -25%
n=5 · WP Artificial Intelligence Act: -12.2%
Top 20 items
highest week-percentileEBA Issues Opinion on Austrian Macroprudential Measure (European Banking Authority) leads the period with 111 views, scoring 100.0 percentile in its publication week.
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1.EBA Issues Opinion on Austrian Macroprudential Measure100.0
2026-05-13 · European Banking Authority · 111 views
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2.New medicine for pulmonary fibrosis recommended100.0
2026-05-25 · European Medicines Agency · 489 views
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3.ECDC Monitors Suspected Hantavirus Outbreak100.0
2026-05-05 · European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · 662 views
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4.ESRB Seeks New Advisory Scientific Committee Members100.0
2026-05-22 · European Systemic Risk Board · 97 views
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5.ECB Reiterates Commitment to 2% Inflation Target100.0
2026-05-01 · European Central Bank · 276 views
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6.EMA Welcomes Political Agreement on Critical Medicines Act97.2
2026-05-13 · European Medicines Agency · 101 views
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7.ECB Monetary Policy Decisions for Medium-Term Inflation96.9
2026-05-01 · European Central Bank · 140 views
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8.EBA Amends Guidelines on Definition of Default96.9
2026-05-10 · European Banking Authority · 144 views
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9.Copernicus: Six Years of Daily Satellite Imagery94.4
2026-05-11 · Copernicus Programme · 93 views
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10.Financial Stability Vulnerabilities Remain Elevated94.4
2026-05-28 · European Central Bank · 278 views
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11.Directive on corporate sustainability due diligence enters into force93.8
2026-05-07 · European Commission · 143 views
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12.GDPR's 10-Year Evolution in Data Protection93.8
2026-05-01 · European Data Protection Board · 115 views
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16.GDPR's 10th Anniversary: Evolution of Data Protection90.6
2026-05-01 · European Data Protection Board · 113 views
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17.Corporate sustainability due diligence directive in force90.6
2026-05-09 · European Commission · 136 views
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18.EDPS Annual Report 2025: Protecting Digital Privacy88.9
2026-05-13 · European Data Protection Supervisor · 84 views
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19.EMA Recommends Updating COVID-19 Vaccines for XFG Variant88.9
2026-05-30 · European Medicines Agency · 115 views
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20.Pesticide Residues in Food: Latest Data Released87.5
2026-05-10 · European Food Safety Authority · 109 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.