King Filip of the Belgians highlighted two topics in his address: the recent spate of terrorist attacks, and the instability and uncertainty in Europe sparked by the refugee crisis and the Brexit.

These developments "reveal divisions within our society", Filip told the Belgian people in his televised speech in Dutch, German and French, the official languages of Belgium. Divisions "between rich and poor, young and old, people with or without access to information and knowledge, people who have a home and people who don't."

"We should prevent that false prophets, make their benefit from division and vulnerability, abusing people's emotions. They find easy scapegoats, thus widening the gap between religions, people, and in the end between all of us."