Adamos Adamou, a lawmaker from Cypriot opposition Progressive Party of Working People, was elected speaker of the Cypriot parliament on Friday, following Demetris Syllouris' resignation earlier in October over a scandal with so-called golden passports, media reported

The practice of giving EU passports to foreign citizens in exchange for large investments, informally called golden passports, appears to be on its last leg with dizzying abruptness

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on Thursday stressed the need to scrap so-called golden passports after a scandal led to a political crisis in Cyprus