European Union leaders are trumpeting their endorsement of a plan to free up hundreds of billions of euros to inject into their defense budgets.

The European Commission has, for a second time, delayed an announcement of its plan to phase out the region's reliance on Russian energy imports from March 26 to an unspecified date, a schedule showed on Wednesday.

The European Commission proposed on Friday making it easier to hunt wolves in Europe, citing their growing number and the threat they pose to livestock as reasons for downgrading the animals' protection status.

European Union leaders committed to working together to bolster the continent’s defenses and to free up hundreds of billions of euros for security.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday provided further details on a five-step plan to finance massive defence investments in the European Union. Von der Leyen plans to allow individual EU countries to temporarily exempt certain defence investments from the bloc's strict debt and deficit limits.

As European Union is planning to raise €150 billion to boost the continent’s defences, markets as well as defence contractors have started looking forward to the issuance of EU war bonds

The chief of the European Union’s executive is proposing an 800 billion-euro ($841 billion) plan to beef up EU defenses.

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders plan to hold emergency talks on Thursday to agree ways to quickly increase their military budgets after the Trump administration signaled that Europe must take care of its own security and also suspended assistance to Ukraine.

In a letter seen by Euronews and sent to the US Congress, Vice-presidents Teresa Ribera and Henna Virkkunen defend EU digital legislation, which they claim applies to companies regardless of where they are located.