Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar announced that he has submitted a bill to parliament to declassify communist-era security service archives, fulfilling his main campaign promise.
The initiative would create an independent commission of historians, archivists, and active intelligence officers, and would significantly narrow the criteria for secrecy: documents would remain classified only if their release could harm relations with EU, EEA, or NATO countries.
Since Magyar’s centrist Tisza party won a constitutional majority after the fall of Viktor Orbán’s regime, the bill is expected to pass, and the archives are set to be opened to the public by October 23, 2026, the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising.