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EU prepares new rules for expanding membership

Rank
Running: 35h
Updated: 18h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 5
Regions: 2
Countries: 5
Languages: 5

The Guardian United Kingdom · English 6 Oct, 14:38 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Čeština (1) · +3 languages

Read at The Guardian

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Guardian, 6 Oct, 14:38 UTC.
Second country: Kazakhstan, with Informburo.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Informburo.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 7 Oct, 07:38 UTC.
Now: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

20%80%

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 20%
Europe 4 outlets · 4 countries · 80%

First movers

The Guardian 6 Oct, 14:38 UTC
Informburo +12h 32m
Index +13h 42m
RMF24 +17h
iDNES +17h 18m

The figures

Coverage: 5 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 5 outlets, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 1: Kazakhstan. Europe 4: Czechia, Hungary, Poland, United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Czech, English, Hungarian, Polish, Russian.
Timeline: Earliest article The Guardian, 6 Oct 2026, 14:38 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 15:00 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 07:56 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region International. Topic Politics. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.17, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

7 Oct 2026 209 4.11 5 5 4 4 4.6

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Started 6 Oct, 15:00 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 07:56 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

Informburo Kazakhstan 7 Oct, 03:10 UTC
"Больше никаких Викторов Орбанов". Еврокомиссия готовит новые правила расширения ЕС

Europe 4 outlets

iDNES Czechia 7 Oct, 07:56 UTC
Už žádného Orbána. EU plánuje pro nové členy patnáctiletou zkušební dobu
RMF24 Poland 7 Oct, 07:38 UTC
„Koniec z Viktorem Obranem”. KE proponuje 15-letni okres próbny dla nowych państw UE
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- „Koniec z Viktorem Orbanem”. KE proponuje 15-letni okres próbny dla nowych państw UE 7 Oct, 07:38 UTC
Index Hungary 7 Oct, 04:20 UTC
„Több Orbán Viktort nem akarunk” – tizenöt éves próbaidővel védekezne az EU az új tagállamok ellen
The Guardian United Kingdom 6 Oct, 14:38 UTC
‘No more Viktor Orbán: EU plans 15-year probation period for new member states