The eurozone’s economy continued to grow at a modest pace in the first three months of the year, but faces the threat of a slide into recession as Russia’s war on Ukraine keeps energy costs high and squeezes household spending power. Restrictions intended to contain the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 weighed on activity at the start of the year. That burden eased as the quarter progressed and the eurozone economy appeared set for a strong recovery this year. However, President Vladimir Putin ’s late-February invasion of Ukraine has dashed those hopes. Economists say a slowdown in eurozone growth as energy costs surge could become a recession if supplies of gas and oil from Russia are interrupted. The European Union’s statistics agency Friday said the 19-nation eurozone’s gross domestic product—a broad measure of the goods […]