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 (67.1 from n=9) but the strongest reach at scale is European Central Bank (50.7 across 12 items).
Europol
n=9 · top quartile share 33.3% · 890 views
Court of Justice of the European Union
n=8 · top quartile share 25% · 719 views
European Central Bank
n=12 · top quartile share 33.3% · 976 views
European Investment Bank
n=16 · top quartile share 25% · 1,364 views
Eurojust
n=6 · top quartile share 16.7% · 497 views
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
n=7 · top quartile share 14.3% · 600 views
European Banking Authority
n=10 · top quartile share 0% · 727 views
Categories
avg within-week percentileDigital & Technology outperforms by a wide margin (71.7 percentile), while Financial Regulation sits 39.2 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%
Rights & Society
n=15 · top quartile share 20%
Security & Foreign Affairs
n=18 · top quartile share 22.2%
Economy & Trade
n=23 · top quartile share 34.8%
Financial Regulation
n=19 · top quartile share 5.3%
Story threads
avg percentile, Wikipedia deltaCJEU Rulings Impact ranks first at 70.7 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-percentileSRB Holds Technical Meeting on Bank Liquidity (Single Resolution Board) leads the period with 159 views, scoring 100.0 percentile in its publication week.
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1.SRB Holds Technical Meeting on Bank Liquidity100.0
2026-06-02 · Single Resolution Board · 159 views
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2.Košice, Slovakia Gets €20M EIB Loan for Urban Upgrades100.0
2026-06-29 · European Investment Bank · 96 views
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3.EU Court Clarifies Car Insurance Liability Rules100.0
2026-06-26 · Court of Justice of the European Union · 104 views
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4.EU and EIB Boost Economy with €22 Billion InvestEU Top-Up100.0
2026-06-10 · European Investment Bank · 148 views
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5.EU Body Sets Priorities for 2027 Work Programme100.0
2026-06-19 · European Economic and Social Committee · 138 views
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7.EU Clarifies GDPR 'Right to Erasure' Rules96.6
2026-06-26 · European Data Protection Board · 102 views
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8.EU Agencies Map Spreading Disease-Carrying Insects95.7
2026-06-12 · European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · 142 views
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9.EU Watchdog Warns of "Shadow AI" Data Breach Risks93.5
2026-06-17 · European Data Protection Supervisor · 113 views
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10.EU Launches Tool to Report Inconsistent GDPR Rulings93.1
2026-06-25 · European Data Protection Board · 97 views
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11.EU Adopts Standard Form for Data Breach Notifications91.3
2026-06-10 · European Data Protection Board · 139 views
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12.EU Court Rules on Cross-Border Service Freedoms87.1
2026-06-17 · Court of Justice of the European Union · 112 views
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13.EU Issues Guides for New Asylum Pact Border Rules87.1
2026-06-15 · European Union Agency for Asylum · 112 views
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14.EMA Panel Backs Six New Medicines for EU Approval86.2
2026-06-28 · European Medicines Agency · 95 views
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18.ECB Holds Rates Amid Middle East Inflation Pressures82.6
2026-06-12 · European Central Bank · 121 views
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20.ECB: Euro Area Economy Stable but Inflation Risks Remain80.6
2026-06-17 · European Central Bank · 105 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.