President Zeman proposes a treaty on protection of Czech children in Norway

Czech President Miloš Zeman has announced he has prepared a draft treaty according to which children with Czech citizenship living in Norway should be handed to their parents, he said in a Sunday debate on Prima TV. The head of state added that the treaty is to help in cases where children with Czech citizenship are taken away from their parents by the Norwegian social service Barnevernet. In January, social services in Norway in January removed a seriously ill nine-month-old baby from the care of its Czech mother and Norwegian father and last year a Norwegian court ruled that two Czech boys were to be put up for adoption. Mr Zeman has previously accused the Norwegian welfare service of kidnapping children.