Iceland formally withdraws its candidacy to the European Union, filed in 2009 and frozen since 2013.[43][44] The move is met with protests from civil society.[45]
30 people are feared dead and 40 more injured after a shopping center in Kazan collapses in a fire.
1 May – Expo 2015 opens in Milan, with 145 countries participating.[59] Widespread rioting occurs in Milan as students protesting overspending clash with police.[60][61]
24 June – 25 people are injured and at least 240 arrested in clashes between protesters and law enforcers over proposed electricity price increase in Armenian capital, Yerevan.[74][75]
5 August – Some 400 migrants are rescued and 25 bodies recovered after a fishing boat carrying an estimated 600 capsizes in the Mediterranean Sea.[81][82]
19 August – EU finance ministers formally approve the first tranche of a new €86 billion bailout for Greece after parliaments in member states back the move.[83][84]
Two planes carrying dozens of parachutists collide mid-air over western Slovakia, killing seven people.[85] 31 others on board survive by jumping out with their parachutes.[86]
Violent storms and flooding hit south-eastern France, killing at least 20 people with two more missing.[99][100]
Portugal's governing centre-right coalition wins the country's general election, which has been widely seen as a referendum on four years of austerity.[101][102]
21 November – Nearly 2 million people on the Crimean Peninsula are without electricity after two transmission towers in Ukraine were damaged by explosions.[126]