Cyprus electricity workers clash with police in selloff protestNICOSIA Feb 24 (Reuters) – Workers at Cyprus’s state electricity utility clashed with police as they tried to enter parliament on Monday to protest plans to sell off government assets under the terms of the country’s 10 billion euro international bailout. Around 300 to 400 demonstrators burst through police barricades, hurling water bottles at riot police before they were pushed back at the entrance of the parliament building in central Nicosia, a Reuters witness said. Cyprus has so far seen little of the industrial upheaval experienced in other nations bailed out in the euro zone. Demonstrators attempted to enter parliament from a side door, forcing lawmakers to briefly interrupt a meeting with the finance minister and move to a different location in the building.
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