Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg risks being left in the lurch by her coalition partners as she seeks to steer western Europe’s biggest oil producer through a slump in crude prices. The 54-year-old called a meeting with her support parties for Tuesday to discuss a mounting discord in her coalition and “the challenges that Norway faces.” Tensions inside the coalition are growing as Finance Minister Siv Jensen’s Progress Party is increasingly at odds with the government’s two support parties over everything from economic and tax policies, to welfare spending and immigration. Solberg’s dilemma is that she needs “support from two centrist parties in parliament that basically disagree with the government on a lot of issues,” said Johannes Bergh, a researcher at the Institute for Social Research in Oslo. “That’s caused a lot of friction.” Support for the minority government, […]