In an interview with The Guardian and other European newspapers, Commissioner Marta Kos outlined the proposal as Brussels prepares for the bloc's expansion into eastern Europe. The mechanism would subject new members to structured democratic oversight for fifteen years after accession.
The framing is pointed. Orbán's Hungary has repeatedly used its veto power to block EU-wide decisions on Russia sanctions, judicial standards and asylum policy. The Commission's diagnosis, implicit in Kos's remarks, is that the accession process itself failed to anticipate how a leader could entrench power after entry, then leverage that position against the collective.
What the source does not yet establish is whether the proposal has treaty backing, how existing members would vote on it, or whether candidate countries — some of which have long complained that enlargement conditions are applied inconsistently — would accept a formal second-tier status lasting a generation. The gap between a commissioner's interview and a binding legal framework is where EU enlargement proposals typically stall.
Gabriel Fenech 
Isla Camilleri 
Alexandre Noir