State security archive keeps historical informant files behind locked doors
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The long-promised opening of state security files has arrived with a familiar caveat: most of them will stay closed. A tour of the archive's basement confirmed that while the documents are being preserved in climate-controlled storage, they will not be made public. For those files that did leak, the National Archive has already begun the process of retraction, starting with an apology to Sándor Lezsák. His name appeared on a list of collaborators due to what officials described as an IT error; he was, the archive now says, a person of interest rather than a source.
The government has abruptly ended its support program for the Bosnian Serb Republic, a rare withdrawal of regional patronage. Domestically, scrutiny has turned to a 65 million forint grant awarded to a railway firm owned by Lőrinc Mészáros. The billionaire’s network remains a subject of intense interest even as one of his key financial architects reportedly prepares for retirement in Portugal.
Children in Gyömrő may finally move out of shipping containers and into a classroom. The government has allocated 11 billion forints for a new elementary school building, an investment that was previously classified as deferrable. The project follows a series of delays that had become a local scandal.