Workers at Cyprus’s state electricity utility clashed with police in a rare explosion of anger on Monday over government privatisation plans under a 10<br />billion euro international bailout. Hundreds of demonstrators burst through police barricades in central Nicosia while lawmakers were debating. Further talks are expected this week.<br /><br />The island has seen little of the unrest stirred by bailouts in other euro zone nations, even though its aid conditions were among the harshest – closure of a failing bank and forcing large depositors in a second to help recapitalise the lender.
