Your Majesty King Frederik, Your Majesty Queen Mary, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, It is a great pleasure to welcome you back to Latvia. I must admit, it is quite a challenge to say anything about Latvia that you do not already know, Your Majesty. You became acquainted with Latvia and the Latvian people as Crown Prince in the early 1990s. You have often visited Latvia in an official capacity and privately. You spent time at the University of Latvia more than 30 years ago on an exchange programme. We still hear vivid recollections from students. The books you donated served as the foundation for the creation of the Political Science Library. Yet, what students remember most fondly are the informal intellectual discussions, sometimes…