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… Welcome, Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, in particular Her Excellency Minister Ms. Kaag, who’s our distinguished keynote speaker today, His Excellency the Ambassador of the Netherlands in Germany, Mr. Kingma, our Governor of the Province of Limburg, mr. Bovens, and our two honoured guests, professor Ignatieff and dr. Ghosh. A warm welcome as well to the members of our Supervisory Board, students, alumni and of course, members of our staff: a heartfelt welcome on behalf of the Executive Board Martin Paul and Nick Bos to this academic ceremony, in which we celebrate our university’s … to teach students curiosity, empathy mutual understanding and all the other aforementioned values. I think it’s important to highlight this, to make it even more explicit, and to explain to our students and to the outside world why our university finds this so important. And what those skills mean: not only for their own careers, but also for the future of us all. I’ve noticed in our discussions over the last year that some dismiss global citizenship education as pursuing a political agenda. As …