Amherd and von der Leyen discuss ongoing Swiss-EU negotiations

Swiss President Viola Amherd and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have met and talked about the ongoing negotiations between Bern and Brussels. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Amherd also used the meeting on the sidelines of the European Political Community (EPC) summit in Budapest on Thursday for further bilateral talks. "The Commission is still interested in concluding the talks by the end of this year," Amherd told Swiss journalists in Budapest. Switzerland is interested in moving forward, but the result must also be right, she said. + Switzerland and EU want to negotiate, but optimism is limited "We did not negotiate, the chief negotiators do that," Amherd, who holds the rotating Swiss presidency this year, She did not elaborate on the three contentious issues of the free movement of people, the cohesion payment and the electricity agreement. She merely said that the government had discussed a mechanism for cohesion payments on Wednesday ...