Norway's eurosceptic Centre Party quit the government on Thursday in a dispute over the adoption of European Union energy policies, leaving the centre-left Labour Party to rule alone eight months before an election.

The Center Party refused to adopt European legislation on clean energy and energy efficiency. PM Jonas Gahr Støre and his social democrats will now form new one-party Labour government.

The Norwegian government collapsed Thursday after the Euroskeptic Centre Party left the two-party coalition after weeks of brawling over the adoption of three EU energy directives, local media reported. Their exit leaves Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre's center-left Labour Party to govern on its own for the first time in 25 years.