ECB boss Draghi in Slovenia for 10th euro anniversary
The ceremony will see Pahor deliver the introductory address and Draghi the keynote, according to a press release from Banka Slovenije.
This will be the second visit to Slovenia by Draghi, who was in Slovenia in October 2012 for a meeting of the ECB governing council. On the occasion, he met the then President Danilo Türk and PM Janez Janša.
Draghi will also meet top Slovenian officials this time around, with the talks focusing on financial markets and the Slovenian banking system.
Arriving at the invitation of Banka Slovenije Governor Boštjan Jazbec, Draghi will hold talks with his host and all of Banka Slovenije's vice governors.
He will have lunch with President Pahor, Finance Minister Mateja Vraničar Erman and the decision-makers from the time when Slovenia introduced the euro.
The talks with the Slovenian officials will probably also touch on the July 2016 investigation at the central bank related to the December 2013 bank bailout.
At the time, the police seized some Banka Slovenije data as they looked into abuse of office in establishing the negative equity at Slovenia's largest bank, NLB.
The celebration of the 10th euro anniversary will also be marked with the central bank issuing today a memorial two-euro coin.
The coin bears the image of ten swallows, the work of young graphic designer Matej Ramšak. Swallows have a positive connotation in folk tradition, while their flying clockwise symbolizes progress and development.
Apart from the million coins that will enter the regular circulation today, another 2,500 collectable high-quality pieces have been coined.
These are on sale at select branches of the Deželna banka Slovenije bank and at the central bank.
Slovenia switched to the euro on 1 January 2007 from its national currency, the tolar, at the exchange rate of 239.640 tolars to the euro.
Today, the single currency is a national currency in 19 eurozone countries, where it is used by more than 339 million people.