Merkel warned her party allies that Germany needs to find a way out of its coalition deadlock | Alexandra Beier/Getty Images Merkel: Europe needs a Germany with a stable government Pushing for urgency, the German chancellor recounts EU leaders’ cries of ‘we need you’ at Brussels summit.

NUREMBERG, Germany — Chancellor Angela Merkel warned her party allies Friday afternoon that Germany needs to find a way out of its coalition deadlock to ensure Europe doesn't lose ground to global powers.

“We have a massive responsibility to form a stable government,” Merkel told the Christian Social Union (CSU) convention, the Bavarian party allied with her Christian Democrats, in the city of Nuremberg. The speech was delivered as the chancellor returned from a EU summit in Brussels on Friday.

“I was faced with anxious questions there what will happen next,” Merkel, who is currently leading a caretaker government, told a crowd of around 1,000 CSU delegates.

In Brussels, other EU leaders said, ““We need you! Look at the world!”” Merkel described.

Referring to her famous beer tent speech in May, Merkel reiterated calls for Europe to become more capable of defending its own security. “Who wants to move something in this world ... has to make sure that, to a certain degree, Europe takes things into its own hands,” Merkel said, provoking applause from the crowd.

Merkel listed the increasing dominance of countries like China and Russia, power struggles in the Middle East and the increasing isolationism of U.S. President Donald Trump among the reasons for urgency.

In September, the long-time chancellor was re-elected for a fourth term but suffered heavy losses to the far right. When coalition talks with smaller parties collapsed late November, Europe’s largest economy was thrown into unprecedented deadlock.

The reluctant Social Democrats remain Merkel’s last option to form a stable government. Earlier Friday, SPD party chief Martin Schulz announced the party leadership had agreed to begin talks over forming a coalition with the conservatives.