FACTBOX-Financial crisis sparks unrest in Europe

March 6 (Reuters) - The global financial and economic crisis has sparked many protests in parts of Europe. Here are some details:

* BOSNIA -- Bosnia's Muslim-Croat parliament cancelled a session on Feb. 26 rather than confront protesters complaining about plans to cut benefits to narrow a big budget gap.

-- It was the latest in a series of protests by workers and disabled people, angry at unemployment and tough measures to keep a lid on ballooning government debt.

* BRITAIN -- British workers held a series of protests at power plants, demonstrating against the employment of foreign contractors to work on critical energy sites. Workers voted to end the unofficial strike on Feb. 5 after Total agreed to hire more British workers on their Lindsey oil refinery.

* BULGARIA -- Police officers, banned by law from striking, have held three "silent" protests since December to demand a 50 percent pay hike and better working conditions.

-- Farmers blocked the only Danube bridge link with Romania and rallied across Bulgaria on Feb. 4 demanding the government set a minimum protective price for milk and stop imports of cheap substitutes.

* FRANCE -- President Nicolas Sarkozy faced criticism from both unions and bosses on Feb. 19 over new measures to tackle the economic crisis. Sarkozy offered an additional 2.65 billion euros ($3.4 billion) of social spending in an effort to quell labour unrest over a previous stimulus package. France's eight union federations called for a day of action on March 19.

-- Up to 2.5 million protesters took to the streets of France on Jan. 29 in a day of strikes.

-- Unions and authorities signed a deal this week to end a six-week general strike over wages and the prices that has paralysed the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, a region of France and part of the EU. A union leader was killed and shops were burned and looted in the protests.

-- Thousands of workers took to the streets on Reunion on Thursday and unions announced that there would be a strike on March 10 to push for a wage increase.

* GERMANY -- Some 15,000 Opel workers from around Germany took part in a mass rally on Feb. 26 at the German headquarters of their struggling company, demanding parent General Motors scrap plans for plant closures in Europe. * GREECE -- Greek farmers protesting low product prices ended a two week blockade of a border crossing with Bulgaria on Feb. 7 when the government pledged 500 million euros ($640 million) in subsidies on products such as olive oil and wheat.

* ICELAND -- Prime Minister Geir Haarde resigned on Jan. 26 after protests. The first leader in the world to fall as a direct result of the financial crisis, he was replaced by Johanna Sigurdardottir, who heads a new centre-left coalition.

* IRELAND -- Nearly 100,000 people marched through Dublin on Feb. 21 to protest at government cutbacks in the face of a deepening recession and bailouts for the banks.

* LATVIA -- A new Latvian prime minister was appointed on Feb. 26 after the fall of the coalition government, the second to succumb to the financial crisis. The agriculture minister resigned on Feb. 3 after protests by farmers over falling incomes.

* LITHUANIA -- Police fired teargas on Jan. 16 to disperse demonstrators who pelted parliament with stones in protest at cuts in social spending. Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said the violence would not stop an austerity plan.

* MONTENEGRO -- In Podgorica, aluminium workers demanded on Feb. 9 to be paid their salaries and an immediate restart of suspended production at the Kombinat Aluminijuma Podgorica (KAP), a Russian-owned plant.

* POLAND -- Up to 10,000 workers, mostly from the arms industry, protested on Friday against lay-offs after it slashed its defence ministry's budget. In Gdansk, around 3,000 workers of power producer Energa also staged protests against the firm's plans to cut jobs during the steep economic slowdown.

* RUSSIA -- Hundreds of angry communists rallied in Moscow on Feb. 23 in protest at the Kremlin's handling of the crisis that has rocked the Russian economy, the latest in a series of demonstrations held across Russia as the economic crisis bites.

-- The opposition rallied about 350 people in central Moscow two days earlier to demand early presidential elections.

-- On Jan. 31, thousands of opposition supporters rallied in Moscow and the port of Vladivostok over hardships caused by the financial crisis. The next day hundreds of Moscow demonstrators called for Russia's leaders to resign.

* UKRAINE - Hundreds of Ukrainians protested at separate demonstrations on Feb. 23, with some urging President Viktor Yushchenko to quit while others demanded their money back from banks hit by the financial crisis.