Norway Budget Talks Fall Short, Raising Risk of Cabinet Crisis

Norway’s ruling Labor Party failed to secure backing for next year’s budget from all its political partners, raising the prospect of a government crisis just three months after its reelection.

An agreement reached late on Saturday between Premier Jonas Gahr Store’s Labor and two smaller center-left groups left the deal clearly short of parliamentary majority support as two other parties dropped out of the talks, mainly due to disagreements over climate and social spending.