According to BBC News:
The Belgian king has provoked a sharp response to a Christmas message in which he drew parallels with the rise of fascism in the 1930s.
In his broadcast, the king said that “in these troubled times we live in, we should remain vigilant and see through populist arguments”.
Populists were, he said, “trying to find scapegoats for the crisis, whether foreigners or compatriots…”.
Such thinking persisted in Belgium as much as in other European countries and “the crisis of the 1930s and the populist reactions of that time must not be forgotten”, the king said.
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King Albert II of Belgium
