In accordance with her pro-business, Atlanticist outlook, she added that Europe needed less red tape and more streamlined decision-making.
Germany wants to save as much as possible of the draft text, which was designed to accelerate policy-making and give the EU, now comprising 489 million people, more visibility on the world stage by creating the posts of EU president and foreign minister.
"We need a foreign minister for Europe. That's enough of a reason to adopt a constitutional treaty," Ms Merkel told the EU parliament, earning a standing ovation.
"We must give a soul to Europe; we have to find Europe's soul. Any failure could be a historic failure."
Ms Merkel attended Bilderberg in 2005, just before she was elected as Chancellor, and where several attendees discussed how to improve Merkel's "boring" image. Whatever happened afterwards worked.
And now here she is proposing to speed up the creation of the European Superstate (am I allowed to say that without EU cops kicking my door down at 4am).
And what is "more streamlined decision-making"? Is it less consultation with those pesky 489 million members and/or with their elected representatives?
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