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 percentileCourt of Justice of the European Union tops the list (65.8 from n=8) but the strongest reach at scale is European Central Bank (51.4 across 12 items).
Court of Justice of the European Union
n=8 · top quartile share 37.5% · 246 views
Europol
n=9 · top quartile share 22.2% · 283 views
European Central Bank
n=12 · top quartile share 33.3% · 289 views
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
n=7 · top quartile share 42.9% · 202 views
European Investment Bank
n=16 · top quartile share 18.8% · 454 views
European Banking Authority
n=10 · top quartile share 10% · 237 views
Eurojust
n=6 · top quartile share 0% · 137 views
Categories
avg within-week percentileDigital & Technology outperforms by a wide margin (65.0 percentile), while Financial Regulation sits 31.9 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 40%
Security & Foreign Affairs
n=18 · top quartile share 16.7%
Economy & Trade
n=23 · top quartile share 26.1%
Financial Regulation
n=19 · top quartile share 10.5%
Story threads
avg percentile, Wikipedia deltaCJEU Rulings Impact ranks first at 74.1 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=5 · no Wikipedia mapping
n=5 · WP European Central Bank: -15.9%
n=5 · no Wikipedia mapping
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 87 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 · 87 views
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2.EU and EIB Boost Economy with €22 Billion InvestEU Top-Up100.0
2026-06-10 · European Investment Bank · 91 views
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3.ECB: Euro Area Economy Stable but Inflation Risks Remain100.0
2026-06-17 · European Central Bank · 51 views
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4.EU Court Clarifies Car Insurance Liability Rules100.0
2026-06-26 · Court of Justice of the European Union · 28 views
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5.EU Court Rules on Cross-Border Service Freedoms96.8
2026-06-17 · Court of Justice of the European Union · 47 views
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6.EIB Group Boosts Ukraine Support by €470 Million96.6
2026-06-26 · European Investment Bank · 26 views
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7.EU Adopts Standard Form for Data Breach Notifications95.7
2026-06-10 · European Data Protection Board · 66 views
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8.EU Body Sets Priorities for 2027 Work Programme93.5
2026-06-19 · European Economic and Social Committee · 37 views
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9.ECB Holds Rates Amid Middle East Inflation Pressures91.3
2026-06-12 · European Central Bank · 58 views
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10.OLAF Stops Illegal Dumping of Textile Waste89.7
2026-06-26 · European Anti-Fraud Office · 25 views
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12.EU Issues Guides for New Asylum Pact Border Rules87.1
2026-06-15 · European Union Agency for Asylum · 36 views
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14.First Imported Ebola Case Confirmed in Europe86.2
2026-06-25 · European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · 24 views
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15.EU Banks Resilient Despite Rising Risks, EBA Says83.9
2026-06-19 · European Banking Authority · 33 views
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16.EU Agencies Warn of Salmonella in Alfalfa Seeds82.8
2026-06-26 · European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · 23 views
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17.EU Agencies Map Spreading Disease-Carrying Insects82.6
2026-06-12 · European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · 55 views
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18.EU Asylum Report 2026: Preparing for New Pact Rules82.6
2026-06-11 · European Union Agency for Asylum · 55 views
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19.EIB Finalises €250M Funding for Baltic's Largest Wind Farm80.6
2026-06-18 · European Investment Bank · 31 views
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20.Court of Justice issues new judgments80.0
2026-06-01 · Court of Justice of the European Union · 79 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.