Athens / Bloomberg Greece, struggling with more than €100 billion ($112 billion) of soured loans, wants to cap distressed debt sales, the country’s economy minister said. Resisting calls from creditors to further open the market, George Stathakis, 62, said the government wants to maintain restrictions on the sale of such loans to distressed debt funds. Under the latest accord signed …

Brussels / Bloomberg Prime Minister David Cameron edged closer to securing an overhaul of the terms of Britain’s membership of the European Union, as fellow leaders signaled they were ready to help him get a deal at this week’s EU summit. With Cameron due in Brussels on Thursday for the second time in 48 hours, he won the backing of …

DUBLIN / Bloomberg Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny’s Fine Gael-Labour coalition looks set to lose its majority in the Feb. 26 general election, a poll late Tuesday in Dublin showed. That may push him toward Fianna Fail, which led Ireland into the worst banking crisis since the Great Depression. Bookmaker Paddy Power makes a first-ever grand alliance between the two …