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.
June 2026 edition: 97 items, n ≥ 5 per bucket.
Institutions
avg within-week percentileEuropol tops the list (68.2 from n=9) but the strongest reach at scale is European Central Bank (52.0 across 12 items).
Europol
n=9 · top quartile share 44.4% · 1,138 views
Court of Justice of the European Union
n=8 · top quartile share 25% · 961 views
European Central Bank
n=12 · top quartile share 25% · 1,287 views
Eurojust
n=6 · top quartile share 16.7% · 653 views
European Investment Bank
n=16 · top quartile share 18.8% · 1,749 views
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
n=7 · top quartile share 14.3% · 752 views
European Banking Authority
n=10 · top quartile share 0% · 947 views
Categories
avg within-week percentileDigital & Technology outperforms by a wide margin (70.8 percentile), while Financial Regulation sits 36.1 points behind. The gap is the actionable signal: readers reward one category, not the other.
Digital & Technology
n=6 · top quartile share 66.7%
EU Policy & Law
n=13 · top quartile share 30.8%
Security & Foreign Affairs
n=18 · top quartile share 27.8%
Economy & Trade
n=23 · top quartile share 26.1%
Rights & Society
n=15 · top quartile share 26.7%
Financial Regulation
n=19 · top quartile share 5.3%
Story threads
avg percentile, Wikipedia deltaCJEU Rulings Impact 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=5 · no Wikipedia mapping
n=5 · no Wikipedia mapping
n=5 · WP European Central Bank: -15.9%
n=5 · no Wikipedia mapping
n=5 · no Wikipedia mapping
Top 20 items
highest week-percentileEU Agencies Map Spreading Disease-Carrying Insects (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control) leads the period with 172 views, scoring 100.0 percentile in its publication week.
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1.EU Agencies Map Spreading Disease-Carrying Insects100.0
2026-06-12 · European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · 172 views
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2.Košice, Slovakia Gets €20M EIB Loan for Urban Upgrades100.0
2026-06-29 · European Investment Bank · 119 views
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3.EU Body Sets Priorities for 2027 Work Programme100.0
2026-06-19 · European Economic and Social Committee · 168 views
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4.SRB Holds Technical Meeting on Bank Liquidity100.0
2026-06-02 · Single Resolution Board · 190 views
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5.EU Court Clarifies Car Insurance Liability Rules100.0
2026-06-26 · Court of Justice of the European Union · 144 views
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7.EU Clarifies GDPR 'Right to Erasure' Rules96.6
2026-06-26 · European Data Protection Board · 134 views
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8.EU and EIB Boost Economy with €22 Billion InvestEU Top-Up95.7
2026-06-10 · European Investment Bank · 169 views
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9.EU Court Rules on Cross-Border Service Freedoms93.5
2026-06-17 · Court of Justice of the European Union · 143 views
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10.EU Launches Tool to Report Inconsistent GDPR Rulings93.1
2026-06-25 · European Data Protection Board · 133 views
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11.EU Adopts Standard Form for Data Breach Notifications91.3
2026-06-10 · European Data Protection Board · 167 views
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12.EU Issues Guides for New Asylum Pact Border Rules90.3
2026-06-15 · European Union Agency for Asylum · 140 views
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14.EU Watchdog Warns of "Shadow AI" Data Breach Risks87.1
2026-06-17 · European Data Protection Supervisor · 135 views
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17.EIB Group Boosts Ukraine Support by €470 Million82.8
2026-06-26 · European Investment Bank · 122 views
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18.New EU Migration and Asylum Pact Comes into Force82.6
2026-06-13 · European Union Agency for Asylum · 149 views
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19.ECB: Euro Area Economy Stable but Inflation Risks Remain80.6
2026-06-17 · European Central Bank · 130 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.