Norway Battles Budget Crisis as Climate, Welfare Spark Feud

Norway’s Labor cabinet is racing to avert a full-blown government crisis after budget talks failed to secure enough backing ahead of a crucial vote due on Friday.

Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store will need to regain the support of two leftist parties that dropped out of weekend negotiations to pass next year’s spending plan in parliament, or he will test their faith in his minority government in a confidence vote that would be the country’s first since 2001.