Norway in future to send children taken from Czech parents back to Czech Republic

Norway will open a new bureau in July aiming to cooperate with the Czech Republic in cases where children are taken away from their Czech parents by the Norwegian authorities. In cases where parents lose their parental rights, the children are to be returned to the Czech Republic, news website aktualne.cz writes. But the new conditions will not be retroactive. The most high profile Czech case in Norway is that of Eva Michaláková, whose sons were taken away by the Barnevernet social service and later put up for adoption; a court had been due to consider an appeal by the mother in February.

Author: Jan Velinger