Entity

European Union

The 27-nation political and economic union — a single market and regulatory superpower whose rules ripple worldwide.

As of 17 Oct 2026Last evidence 17 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • EU leaders clash over migration, Ukraine and budget in Brussels — but delay big decisions

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • EU summit: European leaders pledge support for Ukraine's Zelenskyy

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • 'Switzerland plus' deal option for UK as it seeks closer ties with EU, senior MEP says

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • EU rallies around Zelensky as rift widens with Trump over Russia energy strikes

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • EU negotiates sanction swap with China to rescue critical ASML supplier

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 12 events and claims involving European Union

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 384 mentions on 17 Oct 2026, against 119 on 26 Sept 2026 (+223%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from watch to flagged on 10 Oct 2026 (4 changes recorded since 7 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 3 claims first reported since 16 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “U.S. agrees to a new trade deal with "European Union" before 2027?” moved from 6% to 7% Yes since 2 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

7,902 documents · 520 publishers · 9% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 17 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.087: about 91% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside European Union

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

GermanyFranceRussiaChinaAIUkraineTrumpUnited StatesImmigration
  • Europe · 3,191 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Germany · 1,856 shared documents
  • France · 1,830 shared documents
  • Russia · 1,636 shared documents
  • China · 1,566 shared documents
  • AI · 1,472 shared documents
  • Ukraine · 1,322 shared documents
  • Trump · 1,281 shared documents
  • United States · 1,247 shared documents
  • Immigration · 1,183 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 384 mentions on 17 Oct 2026 with 119 on 26 Sept 2026 (+223%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +327% from 2 Sept 2026 to 17 Oct 2026, between 45 and 421 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions European Union, day by day.

Market price, cited

7% Yes

priced 10 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 6% → 7% Yes (+1pts, from 3 Sept 2026 to 10 Oct 2026)

on “U.S. agrees to a new trade deal with "European Union" before 2027?”

The day’s closing price on this market, and how it moved. The number is the market’s own. Ask about European Union

“U.S. agrees to a new trade deal with "European Union" before 2027?”: the market's own price; the venue link is not stored with it

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving European Union

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • EU leaders clash over migration, Ukraine and budget in Brussels — but delay big decisions

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • EU summit: European leaders pledge support for Ukraine's Zelenskyy

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • 'Switzerland plus' deal option for UK as it seeks closer ties with EU, senior MEP says

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • EU rallies around Zelensky as rift widens with Trump over Russia energy strikes

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • EU negotiates sanction swap with China to rescue critical ASML supplier

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Circle’s USDC Faces Stricter EU Crypto Rules Under MiCA from November 12

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Kraken Parent Payward to Buy Lithuania’s Saldo Bank in Major EU Banking Push

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • EU-China trade deal raises fears Brussels will go soft on Beijing

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Germany, Italy and Belgium call for ‘emergency brake’ on EU legislation

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • UK’s Burnham says rejecting closer EU ties a ‘dereliction of duty’

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Fix airport queues by Christmas, migration commissioner tells Brussels Airport

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • China’s carmakers boost exports amid EU limits on hybrid vehicle imports

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

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European Union

Entity.

Evidence
7,902 documents · 520 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 17 Apr 2026, last seen 17 Oct 2026
Measured
9% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
17 Oct 2026
23 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (12)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.

Situations it is named in (1)

For machines: this record as JSON

Watch this

What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names European Union, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

3 more headlines counted but not shown: no source link on file

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Other markets materially about European Union

Markets whose question is about European Union or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to European Union and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

No other open market in the record is materially about European Union: none names it as the subject of its question or as a party in it.

2 more open markets joined to European Union but not about it
  • 19.5% Yes

    “Will Ukraine sign an EU accession treaty by December 31, 2027?”

    Polymarket · priced 17 Oct 2026

    Relation: mentioned only in passing · the name does not appear as a word in the question; the record joined it another way · closes 31 Dec 2027

  • 96% Yes

    “EU country blames Russia for new sabotage attack by October 31?”

    Polymarket · priced 17 Oct 2026

    Relation: mentioned only in passing · the name does not appear as a word in the question; the record joined it another way · closes 31 Oct 2026

What it connects to

Related records.

Recorded history

  • 10 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 9 Oct 2026

  • 10 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 9 Oct 2026

  • 9 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 2 Oct 2026

  • 9 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 2 Oct 2026

4 changes recorded since 7 Oct 2026, newest first.

Ask about European UnionWatch European Union

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 17 Oct 2026.