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.
July 2026 edition: 105 items, n ≥ 5 per bucket.
Institutions
avg within-week percentileEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control tops the list (60.3 from n=5) but the strongest reach at scale is European Investment Bank (47.5 across 21 items).
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
n=5 · top quartile share 40% · 308 views
Eurojust
n=7 · top quartile share 28.6% · 471 views
Court of Justice of the European Union
n=9 · top quartile share 33.3% · 561 views
European Banking Authority
n=5 · top quartile share 0% · 286 views
European Investment Bank
n=21 · top quartile share 28.6% · 1,241 views
European Data Protection Board
n=5 · top quartile share 20% · 290 views
European Central Bank
n=7 · top quartile share 14.3% · 343 views
Europol
n=10 · top quartile share 20% · 570 views
European Economic and Social Committee
n=12 · top quartile share 8.3% · 604 views
Categories
avg within-week percentileRights & Society outperforms by a wide margin (63.3 percentile), while EU Policy & Law sits 22.7 points behind. The gap is the actionable signal: readers reward one category, not the other.
Rights & Society
n=14 · top quartile share 42.9%
Financial Regulation
n=16 · top quartile share 37.5%
Economy & Trade
n=28 · top quartile share 25%
Security & Foreign Affairs
n=21 · top quartile share 19%
Digital & Technology
n=6 · top quartile share 16.7%
EU Policy & Law
n=20 · top quartile share 20%
Story threads
avg percentile, Wikipedia deltaCJEU Rulings Impact ranks first at 55.5 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=7 · no Wikipedia mapping
Top 20 items
highest week-percentileEU banks on track to meet stability targets (Single Resolution Board) leads the period with 77 views, scoring 100.0 percentile in its publication week.
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1.EU banks on track to meet stability targets100.0
2026-07-21 · Single Resolution Board · 77 views
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5.EIB & ESA Launch First-Ever Fund for Aerospace SMEs100.0
2026-07-09 · European Investment Bank · 92 views
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10.EU Court Clarifies GDPR 'Large-Scale' Data Processing92.3
2026-07-14 · Court of Justice of the European Union · 77 views
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11.EMA Panel Issues New Safety Info for Contraceptives92.0
2026-07-11 · European Medicines Agency · 89 views
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12.ECB: Negotiated Wages Grew 2.7% in Early 202790.9
2026-07-30 · European Central Bank · 73 views
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13.EIB & Bpifrance Fund Renewables, Defence with €650M90.5
2026-07-04 · European Investment Bank · 81 views
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14.EU Top Court Rules on FIFA's Football Agent Rules88.5
2026-07-19 · Court of Justice of the European Union · 76 views
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15.EIB Funds Greek Defence Sector in First-Ever Bank Partnership88.2
2026-07-22 · European Investment Bank · 71 views
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16.EMA Fast-Tracks Review of New Pancreatic Cancer Drug88.0
2026-07-09 · European Medicines Agency · 88 views
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17.EMA Boosts Efforts for Medicines on Women's Health85.7
2026-07-05 · European Medicines Agency · 78 views
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18.Data Watchdog Calls for Better Digital Enforcement84.6
2026-07-18 · European Data Protection Board · 73 views
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20.EU body backs 'Made in Europe' industrial plan82.4
2026-07-21 · European Economic and Social Committee · 69 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.