Hofor,

"maybe" you have misread EU statement. Indeed child custody is decided by national laws, after court proceedings, nothing like that takes place in Norway, where children are taken away by state after mere psychologist statement and lended to well payed foster parents after as little as one month, thus negating your statemenet about any significance of biological family in the first place.

In the case of Michalak family, Barnevernet took the children away after alleged sexual abuse, that was negated as false by both local police and norwegian court. Both boys were parted into different families (why?). Barnevernet however refused to overturn its original decision and even forbidden mother to speak to her children in czech (it wasnt issue until she made appeal to court - negating your statement, that supervision would be impossible). Czech state was not notified by Norway at any point, that its citizens were kept in Norway. After national media and politicians took notice, Barnevernet once again refused to cooperate, unable to even state reasons, why the children were taken away (they couldnt state sexual abuse, as it was already stated to be false by Norway´s justice department) or how should Miss Michalak change her behavior. Deputies of Barnevernet walked out. And why not? Since nobody in Norway is above them, they have nice socialist state within another socialist state.

http://www.praguemonitor.com/2015/01/23/ministry-hand-second-note-norway-over-michal%C3%A1k-kids

Stance of head of state: http://rt.com/news/230951-czech-president-norway-nazi/

As to your personal view, that spanking is not acceptable under any circumstances, how far are your compatriots willing to go in this? Is breaking apart family from different culture enough or should the biological relatives of disciplined ones be jailed along with Mr. Breivik in psychiatric asylum?

EDIT: Those cases are not isolated. Norway already recieved 420+ official notices concerning its abuse of children with foreign passports. Quite a deed, considering it si country of mere five million people.