Kamil Kowalcze

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  • 14 March 2025, Berlin: Friedrich Merz, CDU/CSU parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag and CDU federal chairman, makes a statement after the parliamentary group meeting in the Bundestag. After lengthy discussions, the parliamentary group leaders of the CDU/CSU, SPD and Greens have reached an agreement on a billion-euro defense and infrastructure package. Photo: Michael Kappeler/dpa (Photo by Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty Images)Politics

    Germany’s landmark spending bill wins final lawmaker approval

    By Arne Delfs, Kamil Kowalcze, and others
  • Employees inside a cleanroom at the Globalfoundries Inc. 7H semiconductor fabrication plant in Singapore, on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. GlobalFoundries was created by purchasing the manufacturing operations of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in 2009 and later combining it with Singapore’s Chartered Semiconductor. Photographer: Edwin Koo/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    German dream of becoming a global chip superpower is fading fast

    By Kamil Kowalcze, Christina Kyriasoglou, and others
  • Heavy construction machinery in place ahead of the ground-breaking ceremony for the new European Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (ESMC) plant in Dresden, Germany, on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. The European Union approved a 5 billion ($5.5 billion) German subsidy for TSMC's plan to built a chip plant in eastern Germany in partnership with Infineon Technologies AG, NXP Semiconductors NV and Robert Bosch GmbH. Photographer: Liesa Johannssen/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    TSMC breaks ground on €10 billion factory in Germany amid growing China-Taiwan tensions

    By Kamil Kowalcze and Bloomberg
  • Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev making a speech.Politics

    Europe plotting to keep last remaining Russia-Ukraine gas pipeline flowing with Azerbaijan’s help

    By Ewa Krukowska, Petra Sorge, and others
  • German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.Finance

    An energy crisis and recession combo means that Germany will borrow double what it usually does just to get through it

    By Michael Nienaber, Kamil Kowalcze, and others