{"id":37068,"date":"2025-10-08T13:08:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eximbanka.sk\/it-wont-work-without-the-kernel\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T13:10:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:10:50","slug":"it-wont-work-without-the-kernel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eximbanka.sk\/en\/it-wont-work-without-the-kernel\/","title":{"rendered":"It won&#8217;t work without the kernel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br\/>Yesterday, Eximbanka&#8217;s CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ing-rastislav-podhorec-mba-0253652b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rastislav Podhorec, MBA<\/a>, together with Deputy CEO Igor Bar\u00e1t and Director of International Relations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mat%C3%BA%C5%A1-%C5%A1%C3%A1rsky-62b03395\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mat\u00fa\u0161 \u0160\u00e1rsky<\/a> attended the ENEF &#8211; European Nuclear Energy Forum, the 18th edition of the European energy event, which this year took place in Bratislava. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br\/>Eximbanka has been there &#8211; both in panel discussions and in bilateral negotiations with key partners in the energy sector.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Slovakia has a unique capability &#8211; as a small country we can cover the entire nuclear resource cycle through Slovak companies: from research, through construction, to decommissioning and spent fuel storage.<br\/>This expertise is a value we can proudly export to the world &#8211; and Eximbanka is ready to support these activities.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> In his speech, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ing-rastislav-podhorec-mba-0253652b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rastislav Podhorec, MBA<\/a>, CEO of Eximbanka, presented the unique catalytic role of Export Credit Agencies (ECAs), which reduce the risks of nuclear projects (including SMR\/AMR) and motivate private capital to get involved, thus contributing to more efficient financing and development of the sector.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But expanding nuclear capacity in the EU brings complex challenges &#8211; from financing, to training the next generation of nuclear engineers, to modernising regulatory processes.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Representatives of Eximbanka attended several meetings with Slovak nuclear energy companies as well as bilateral meetings with institutional partners, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/keisuke-sadamori-11462b23a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keisuke Sadamori<\/a>, IEA Director for Energy Markets and Security and Jan P\u00e1nek, Director of the EU Commission&#8217;s Directorate General for Energy (DG ENERG).<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eximbanka remains an active partner in issues key to a sustainable, stable and low-emission energy future for Slovakia and Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Eximbanka&#8217;s CEO Rastislav Podhorec together with Deputy CEO Igor Bar\u00e1t and Director of International Relations Mat\u00fa\u0161 \u0160\u00e1rsky attended the ENEF &#8211; European Nuclear Energy Forum, the 18th edition of the European Energy Event, which this year took place in Bratislava. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":37065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eximbanka.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eximbanka.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eximbanka.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eximbanka.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eximbanka.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eximbanka.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37069,"href":"https:\/\/eximbanka.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37068\/revisions\/37069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eximbanka.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eximbanka.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eximbanka.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eximbanka.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}