The meetings are part of Pahor's regular annual visits to the top EU institutions, which this time will not include a meeting with the president of the European Council. Charles Michel will not be in Brussels on that date.

The president, who will also meet Slovenian MEPs, is expected to establish dialogue with leaders following the start of the new institutional cycle, which is important in the light of Slovenia's EU presidency in the second half of 2021.

The main topics expected to be discussed between Pahor and the EU institution leaders enlargement and a conference on the future of Europe, the president's office added.

It will be the fifth meeting of the kind for Pahor, who was last in Brussels in February 2019, since he took office in December 2012. The first meeting in January 2013 and was actually the first official visit Pahor made as president.