European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos said the EU is preparing stricter accession frameworks for future members, introducing safeguards designed to enforce compliance with the bloc’s democratic values. Speaking during a panel at Ukraine Innovation Days in Washington DC, Kos outlined what she described as a “new generation” of accession treaties that would include mechanisms to penalize member states that deviate from EU values. JOIN US ON TELEGRAM Follow our coverage of the war on the