Czechia to end V4 presidency, address EU budget, Brexit

Some of the main issues of Czech foreign policy for 2020 include the end of the country's presidency of the Visegrad Four (V4) group in late June and the Foreign Ministry's plan to open a new embassy in Singapore. In European policy, Czech diplomats will focus on the EU's Multiannual financial framework 2021-2027 as well as setting up new relations with the UK, which is expected to withdraw from the EU in late January. In the first half of 2020, the countries of the V4 (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) will enter talks with their partners in the EU as well as in other regions of the world.