Reuters reports that Economics Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said that the European Union will push on with its 1.8 trillion euro financial package to revive the bloc's COVID-hit economy even if Hungary and Poland continue to try to veto the project.

"We will not surrender to a veto," Gentiloni said.

"The premise is we are very clear towards these member states, we will go on without them," the former Italian prime minister said.

He said he was worried about the continued stand-off with the two Eastern European nations but was also confident that it would be overcome through an agreement thanks to "the roads of diplomacy."