A visit to Egypt by parliament’s foreign affairs committee has been cancelled after MP Raymond de Roon from the anti-Islam PVV was refused a visa.

The committee had been due to travel to Egypt on Friday for a weekend working visit.
According to De Roon, he was refused a visa because of statements he made earlier about Egypt. ‘They don’t like the fact I described as ethnic cleansing the way 95,000 Christians have been driven out of the country since March 2011,’ Van Room is quoted as saying in the Telegraaf.
PVV leader Geert Wilders said the refusal to grant a visa to De Roon was a ‘scandal’. ‘It shows the new Egyptian regime is as barbaric as the previous one,’ Wilders is quoted as saying.