2020Monica Lowenberg

British MEP Richard Howitt, European Parliament Spokesperson on Human Rights, Issues Statement on Riga Waffen SS March Posted on 13 March 2014 by Defending History

Lowenberg reproduces the text of Howitt's statement. We reviewed it at the time he issued it in 2014. Our examination concluded:

Whether knowingly or unwittingly, whether representing his own views or making an official statement on behalf of the European Parliament, Howitt has allied himself with Kremlin-aligned "professional nationalists" pursuing the interests of Russian foreign policy on Latvian soil.