Europe

Prime Minister David Cameron dismissed the possibility of a second referendum on Britain’s membership in the European Union if the results in June are close.

The eurozone’s trade surplus widened in March, but that was driven by a decline in imports rather than a rise in exports.

A group of Cossacks attacked and injured Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and five of his associates in southern Russia.

A force that once ousted civilian leaders now shapes President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s moves in Syria and against Kurdish insurgents at home.

The head of the Irish development agency is looking to create 10,000 finance jobs in Ireland in the next four years. A U.K. referendum on whether to quit the European Union is making his life easier.

Donald Trump said he is unlikely to have a good relationship with U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron if he becomes the next U.S. president because of Mr. Cameron’s earlier criticism of him.

While the government is spending its oil reserves to shore up the budget, officials privately say that won’t be enough to fill the gap between revenues and expenditures within just a few years.

Consumer groups in Spain and Portugal argue that lenders should pay up when mortgage rates drop below zero. Lenders are fighting back, with billions of dollars of payments at stake.

Boris Johnson described the European bloc as another attempt to centralize European power.

If fiscal policy wasn’t the primary cause of the eurozone’s downturn, it is unlikely to be the solution to today’s weak growth, Simon Nixon writes.

Europe’s Eurovision song contest crowned Ukraine’s Jamala as its winner for a composition evoking Crimea and ethnic Tatars, stirring controversy with Russian officials.

Ireland’s new government welcomed a decision by Moody’s Investors Service to raise its credit rating for the country, hailing the move as a sign of confidence.

Greece will not accept a bailout deal without a concrete agreement for debt relief from the country’s European creditors, a top aide to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said.

An Islamic State sympathizer who planned to attack U.S. military personnel stationed in England received a sentence of life imprisonment on Friday, concluding a trial that shone a light on how militants in Syria help orchestrate attacks in Europe.

Some 40 firefighters and two helicopters were battling to control the inferno, near the town of Seseña, south of Madrid.