Student protesters hold flags as they stand under a sign reading “Place des Frites (Fries Square)” during a demonstration in Brussels on March 29, 2011. Protesters hit the streets as Belgium matched Iraq’s record as the country longest without a government today, and polls showed the crisis boosting separatists in the Dutch-speaking north. As Belgium snatched the dubious record after 289 days rudderless, students took to the streets to press for a coalition deal between leaders of the linguistically-partitioned country — split between Dutch-speaking Flanders and the French-speaking south. AFP PHOTO / GEORGES GOBET (Photo credit should read GEORGES GOBET/AFP/Getty Images)
