Instead, she made clear that she is still playing a long-term game to strengthen the eurozone through more centralized control of how governments run their economies. That will provide little comfort to Greeks hoping for a quick resolution as they head to the polls.
"We need not just a currency union; we also need a so-called fiscal union, more common budget policies. And we need above all a political union," she said. "That means that we must, step by step as things go forward, give up powers to Europe as well."
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Juergen Baetz contributed reporting from Berlin.
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