Week 1, 2020: Happy New Year

January:

• Taiwan presidential election and legislative election.

• After the Brexit withdrawal agreement passed its second reading in the House of Commons on December 20, 2019, the United Kingdom and Gibraltar are scheduled to leave the European Union.[1]

February:

• Slovak parliamentary election.

March:

• Israel will hold its third Knesset election in less than a year.

April:

• North Macedonian parliamentary election.

• Chilean constitutional referendum.

• Serbian parliamentary election.

May:

• Dominican Republic presidential election.

June:

• UEFA Euro 2020 will be held in 12 European countries

• The 2020 Copa América 2020 will be held in Argentina and Colombia.

July:

• Planned launch of NASA's Mars 2020 mission to study the habitability of Mars in preparation for future human missions.

• The 2020 Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo, Japan.

September:

• New Caledonian independence referendum.

October:

• The 2020 ICC T20 World Cup will be held in Australia in eight cities.

• The 2020 World Expo will open in Dubai.

November:

• United States presidential election.

December:

• Following the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union, expected on January 31, 2020, this is when the current transition period for negotiations on a future relationship is set to expire.