Editorial Engine

Saturday brief assembly
for Weekly and Local.

One JSON brief, one ranked queue, and one approval surface for the editorial team. Sample data is loaded from the new schema-backed content engine so design, structure, and ops assumptions can be reviewed together.

Ready sources
6/10

Browser-backed sources are flagged separately so editorial sees where automation still needs hardening.

Manual load
22%

Target editorial effort after collection, ranking, and source-grounded first drafts are complete.

Top list
10 items

Diversity-balanced shortlist generated after scoring, tagging, and de-duplication.

Source health

Pull layer
ep_procedures
Official Parliament procedure feed.
ready
weekly24 hits
ep_meetings
Used for plenary look-ahead.
ready
weekly14 hits
eurlex_oj
Site protection requires browser automation.
needs browser worker
weekly0 hits
commission_press_room
English Commission news feed.
ready
weekly31 hits
eurostat
One stat candidate per pillar.
ready
weekly6 hits
council_agendas
Meeting calendars and COREPER pages require browser extraction.
needs browser worker
weekly0 hits
cohesion_data
Catalog hits filtered to approvals, payments, and major projects.
ready
local18 hits
data_europa
Search API used for regional implementation datasets.
ready
local9 hits
eca_reports
Publications pages require browser extraction.
needs browser worker
local0 hits
regional_feeds
Registry shape implemented; full 50-feed verification pending.
seed only
local12 hits

Review queue

Filter the ranked brief and approve or hold items before export.

Detail panel

Parliament plenary file on joint capability procurement enters the next two-week agenda window

Rank
92

The Parliament meeting calendar indicates a plenary-stage defence procurement item inside the next 14-day window. The draft uses the meeting label and agenda metadata only, so an editor still needs to confirm whip dynamics and final vote timing.

SecurityEconomyadvancingeu
Draft output
Defence procurement file moves into plenary range

This is a high-signal integration marker because it touches common capability-building and the EU industrial base.

Editorial handoff

Verify vote date and whether the Council is aligned.

Foreign desk
Summary evidence
agenda_label

Meeting calendar entry shows a plenary-stage defence file in the next 14 days.

Automation coverage

Drafting is intentionally conservative. The engine automates intake, ranking, and evidence capture; editors still own narrative framing.

Weekly auto-draft78%
Local auto-draft61%
Human-owned sections
Council/COREPER contextPolitical significance of plenary votesLocal accountability framingCross-item narrative lead
Status counts
Pending
3
Approved
4
Needs review
3
Held
2

Top 10 shortlist

Ordered by the current relevance model with basic diversity balancing.

Rank board
01
Parliament plenary file on joint capability procurement enters the next two-week agenda window

This is a high-signal integration marker because it touches common capability-building and the EU industrial base.

Security92 / weekly
02
Cross-border grid permitting procedure hits a first-reading milestone

It is a useful Weekly item because permitting reform is a real-world bottleneck for energy integration.

Energy89 / weekly
03
Commission unveils rules aimed at easier cross-border rail booking

It is consumer-facing single-market integration, not just transport administration.

Economy87 / weekly
04
Official Journal watch flags a new water-protection act entering force

Legal force items are high signal but need precise citation handling.

Environment83 / weekly
05
Cost of Non-Europe stat candidate: EU unemployment trend selected for inequalities pillar

The stat card is nearly fully automatable and gives editors a dependable recurring component.

Inequalities78 / weekly
06
COREPER agenda watch should surface an energy-and-industry pinch point next week

Council items often become lead stories but are still the least automatable part of Weekly.

Economy76 / weekly
07
Cohesion catalog surfaces a major transport project approval dataset for NUTS-2 tracking

Large project approvals are the cleanest local proof that EU money is moving.

Economy85 / local
08
Regional broadband implementation dataset discovered via data.europa.eu search

This is how Local expands beyond Brussels-native datasets.

Technology74 / local
09
Audit watch placeholder for an ECA report touching local industrial spending

ECA findings are among the strongest accountability hooks for Local.

Economy80 / local
10
Regional press room watch flags a hydrogen corridor implementation note

This is the kind of bottom-up integration signal the paid tier needs every week.

Energy79 / local

Taxonomy live map

Machine-readable pillar rules drive tagging and the recurring Eurostat stat slot.

Energy
nrg_pc_204

Energy union, grids, decarbonisation, and strategic autonomy in power markets.

energyelectricitygashydrogen
Security
gov_10a_exp

Defence, border management, resilience, civil protection, and strategic capacity.

securitydefenceborderresilience
Economy
namq_10_gdp

Single market, industrial policy, capital markets, trade, and economic governance.

economysingle marketindustrycapital markets
Inequalities
une_rt_m

Social cohesion, labour mobility, poverty reduction, and territorial convergence.

employmentunemploymentpovertysocial
Environment
env_ac_epneec

Climate law, nature restoration, water, circular economy, and environmental compliance.

environmentclimatewaterpollution
Technology
isoc_cicci_use

Digital regulation, AI, telecoms, semiconductors, data infrastructure, and innovation.

technologydigitalaiartificial intelligence
Artifact bundle
`scripts/newsletter_content_engine.py`
`schemas/edition-brief.schema.json`
`content/newsletter-engine/pipeline-spec.md`
`content/newsletter-engine/pillar-taxonomy.json`
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