I think that aggregation can work as narrative, but it needs to be curated. A team editing and highlighting parts of the flow - that knew their way around that amount of european blogs  - could really tell a story - especially with linguistic support.

The feeds could be there and available - but with a heavily curated front end -  and the possibility offered to others to create customised front ends for it.

I always think 'engine' when I see routine formatting errors - because of automation - in search results. This feels like an engine.