"Naked, Flemish or Walloon, all Belgians are equal!". The sun was shining, but it took to launch some speeches, and drink some beers, to heat the room on Thursday at three o'clock in the afternoon in Ghent and make tens of spontaneous take off their clothes to protest the inability of politicians to reach agreement Belgian government.
The soundtrack of Nine and a half weeks did the rest, to the delight of hundreds of onlookers who gathered in the square of Kouter. "Oh, it's underwear? Bah disappointed ...", said a retiree who suddenly lost interest in the act. Thus began yesterday in the indomitable Flemish town called revolution of chips, a name that evokes both Current unrest in the Arab countries as the country's national dish.
It is the latest invention of Belgian students to protest with large doses of humor because, after 249 days from federal elections, the country remains without a government. And for all of conclude that, after snatching the Netherlands the European record of misrule in January, will take place in Belgium on Thursday night to Friday with the championship.
I wore Iraq, which last year took over eight months to agree on a Sunni government, Shiites and Kurds. In fact, the Mesopotamian country needed a few days after closing the political agreement to its Parliament for adoption. There is indeed another counter running with an eye on March 29, but the country wanted to celebrate the record and no reason to be picky, only a miracle will prevent a few weeks Belgium conquered, this time without discussion some, the world title misrule.
The party continued in the evening in the square of Sint-Jakobs, where a delegation of the Iraqi parliament was to deliver the trophy to the organizing committee that accredits Belgium as world champion in fruitless political negotiations. The anticipation was huge international media. Even the television channel Al Jazeera was there to explain to the Arab public the kind of revolutions that are released today in Europe ...
Chips fed and watered with beer, celebrations took place in major cities. In Brussels, hundreds of students gathered outside the courthouse to protest, to enjoy the sun and the performance of the new country music star, Stromae (Flemish mother and father of Rwanda). In Leuven, the students distributed 300 cones of frites.
And in neighboring New-Leuven university created by the Francophone after being expelled from the original headquarters in the sixties-written hundreds of young people left their frustrations in a new "wall of lamentation Belgian." Were all more attractive to busy, and mostly young, a first in the country.
Unlike the Jan. 23 demonstration in Brussels, calling apolitical acts yesterday included a clear appeal to the country's unity and solidarity. Summoned the youth section of the platform, "Not In Our Name", a collective of artists and intellectuals against the division of the country that denounces the efforts of politicians to look at what separates the Flemish and Walloons, not what unites.
A typical feature of the Belgians are Flemish or Walloon, is its ability to laugh at themselves. And yesterday returned to flaunt it. No complex, the national press lately referred to locally as "Absurdistan," while citizens initiatives related spontaneous release perfectly with the Belgian surrealist tradition.
Magritte would say, "This is not a country" ... Is there still reason to respond with laughter and irony to the endless political crisis facing the country and has left completely exposed their shame? "Yeah, that's a laugh, what can we do but to ordinary citizens?" Replies the musician Luc De Vos before getting on the podium in Ghent to inaugurate the festival.
Because a world record, they say, is not achieved every day. 
The soundtrack of Nine and a half weeks did the rest, to the delight of hundreds of onlookers who gathered in the square of Kouter. "Oh, it's underwear? Bah disappointed ...", said a retiree who suddenly lost interest in the act. Thus began yesterday in the indomitable Flemish town called revolution of chips, a name that evokes both Current unrest in the Arab countries as the country's national dish.
It is the latest invention of Belgian students to protest with large doses of humor because, after 249 days from federal elections, the country remains without a government. And for all of conclude that, after snatching the Netherlands the European record of misrule in January, will take place in Belgium on Thursday night to Friday with the championship.
I wore Iraq, which last year took over eight months to agree on a Sunni government, Shiites and Kurds. In fact, the Mesopotamian country needed a few days after closing the political agreement to its Parliament for adoption. There is indeed another counter running with an eye on March 29, but the country wanted to celebrate the record and no reason to be picky, only a miracle will prevent a few weeks Belgium conquered, this time without discussion some, the world title misrule.
The party continued in the evening in the square of Sint-Jakobs, where a delegation of the Iraqi parliament was to deliver the trophy to the organizing committee that accredits Belgium as world champion in fruitless political negotiations. The anticipation was huge international media. Even the television channel Al Jazeera was there to explain to the Arab public the kind of revolutions that are released today in Europe ...
Chips fed and watered with beer, celebrations took place in major cities. In Brussels, hundreds of students gathered outside the courthouse to protest, to enjoy the sun and the performance of the new country music star, Stromae (Flemish mother and father of Rwanda). In Leuven, the students distributed 300 cones of frites.
And in neighboring New-Leuven university created by the Francophone after being expelled from the original headquarters in the sixties-written hundreds of young people left their frustrations in a new "wall of lamentation Belgian." Were all more attractive to busy, and mostly young, a first in the country.
Unlike the Jan. 23 demonstration in Brussels, calling apolitical acts yesterday included a clear appeal to the country's unity and solidarity. Summoned the youth section of the platform, "Not In Our Name", a collective of artists and intellectuals against the division of the country that denounces the efforts of politicians to look at what separates the Flemish and Walloons, not what unites.
A typical feature of the Belgians are Flemish or Walloon, is its ability to laugh at themselves. And yesterday returned to flaunt it. No complex, the national press lately referred to locally as "Absurdistan," while citizens initiatives related spontaneous release perfectly with the Belgian surrealist tradition.
Magritte would say, "This is not a country" ... Is there still reason to respond with laughter and irony to the endless political crisis facing the country and has left completely exposed their shame? "Yeah, that's a laugh, what can we do but to ordinary citizens?" Replies the musician Luc De Vos before getting on the podium in Ghent to inaugurate the festival.
Because a world record, they say, is not achieved every day.
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