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European Union Foreign Affairs Journal eQuarterly for European Foreign, Foreign Trade, Development, Security Policy, EU-Third Country Relations and Regional Integration (EUFAJ) N° 02– 2017 ISSN 2190-6122 Contents Editorial ........................................................................................................................................................ 5 Hard Times for Soft Power: Germany's China Challenge ...........................................................................6 Angela Stanzel The Turkish Economy Today ..................................................................................................................... 19 The "Marshall Plan with Africa": Africa and Europe – A New Partnership for Development and Peace . 26 Women in Power - The Example of Latin America ................................................................................... 60 Carmen Aguilera Garcia Statistics on Women in National Parliaments ............................................................................................. 68 Security Threats Caused by Climate Change - Case Study on the Republic of Moldova .......................... 75 Gheorghe Racovita Regional Geopolitical Changes and the Russian-Armenian Relations ....................................................... 89 Lilit Vardanian European Union Foreign Affairs Journal – N° 2 – 2017 www.eufaj.eu, [email protected] 1 The Prospects of the EU–Armenia Partnership within the ENP Review: Is a Eurasian Economic Union - EU balance feasible? ................................................................................................................................... 95 Aram Terzyan Vive la France or what does the victory of Emmanuel Macron mean for Europe and Eastern Partnership Countries? ................................................................................................................................................. 105 Grisha Aghajanyan The Consolidation of Inter-Institutional Cooperation and Communication Mechanism on CSDP-related Matters - Study on the Republic of Georgia ............................................................................................ 109 George Niculescu, Grazvydas Jasutis, Kakha Gogolashvili Public Administration Reform at the Local and Regional Level in the Eastern Partnership Countries: .. 123 Developments since 2012 in the Field of Decentralisation Vyacheslav Tolkovanov, Juraj Nemec et al. Salina Ulcinj: European natural treasure still threatened in Montenegro ................................................. 242 Reviews ..................................................................................................................................................... 249 European Union Foreign Affairs Journal – N° 2 – 2017 www.eufaj.eu, [email protected] 2 European Union Foreign Affairs Journal (EUFAJ) eQuarterly for European Foreign, Foreign Trade, Development, Security Policy, EU-Third Country Relations and Regional Integration ISSN: 2190-6122 Published by: LIBERTAS – Europäisches Institut GmbH, Lindenweg 37, 72414 Rangendingen, Germany Phone: +49 7471 984996-0, fax +49 7471 984996-19, e-mail: [email protected] Managing Director: Hans-Jürgen Zahorka Registered: AG Stuttgart, HRB 243253, USt ID no.: DE811240129, Tax no.: 53 093 05327 Internet: www.eufaj.eu, www.libertas-institut.eu Subscription Rate: Free. 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Chief Editor: Hans-Jürgen Zahorka Editors: Ofelya Sargsyan (managing), Frederic Labarre Editorial Advisory Board: Židas Daskalovski, Ph.D., CRPM Skopje, professor of political science, University of Bitola, Macedonia Ioseb Kelenjeridze, Ph.D., professor, Dean of Legal, Humanities and Social Science Faculty, European University, Tbilisi, Georgia Catherine Maia, Ph.D., professor of public international law, University of Porto (Portugal) and Science Po Paris (France); Director of Multipol, Geneva (Switzerland) Pierre Menguy, president of Maison de l’Europe de la Seine, Le Havre/France, Member of Team Europe France Sergey Metelev, Ph.D., professor of economy, Russian State University for Economy, Omsk, Russia Saulius Nefas, Ph.D., professor of administrative science, Mykolos Romeros University, Vilnius/Lithuania Martin Pontzen, Dr. rer. pol., Bundesbank Director, German Federal Bank, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Viktor Yengibaryan, President of European Movement Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia Assistant Editors: Eka Meskhrikadze, Tbilisi, Georgia Meerim Oboskanova, Winnipeg, Canada (previously Bishkek/Kyrgyzstan) Tamara Vatsadze, Tbilisi, Georgia All authors are responsible for their published texts. 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Then write “EUFAJ” or “European Union Foreign Affairs Journal” into the search box (if you have access to LinkedIn). Also here, news are regularly spread. Welcome on LinkedIn! European Union Foreign Affairs Journal – N° 2 – 2017 www.eufaj.eu, [email protected] 4 Editorial Dear readers, It is difficult to determine the content of a Quarterly on EU Foreign Policy. Today's US foreign policy could be a permanent issue, But let us reduce the president to what he is, namely a more or less bizarre personality in politics. Being bizarre a bit is not too bad, but he would fit better into the office of a construction company, where he, in the US, can hire and fire and behave in an autocratic way, diving under all intellectual heights, being controlled only by his financiers. But he had one positive effect: He united and unites the Europeans like never seen since long time. And Europe needs this just now. In this issue, we have published, among others, a contribution by a ECFR researcher on an aspect of the future of the European-Chinese relations, and the draft of a "Marshall Plan with Africa" by the German Ministry of Cooperation which might change Europe's Africa policy. But also the Eastern Partnership is again the subject of our contributions - this time with an interesting research about global climate change and the security situation e.g. in Moldova (this can be dedicated to the US President). But we have nothing on India, Putin's Russia, about trade, green economy (well, with the exception of an interesting aspect of Montenegro), energy, the new EU trade and development strategies, the BRICS countries' efforts, the Latin American reactions on the new US trade policy intentions, the Middle East, IS and terrorism, the Maghreb countries, even the Brexit etc. There are so many subjects to deal with - it is a permanent "mea culpa" if we omit anything. But we are not a daily or weekly, Which sometimes could make me mad. With best regards, Hans-Jürgen Zahorka European Union Foreign Affairs Journal – N° 2 – 2017 www.eufaj.eu, [email protected] 5 Hard Times for Soft Power: Germany’s China Challenge Angela Stanzel Dr. Angela Stanzel joined the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) as policy fellow for the Asia programme in 2014. Alongside EU-China relations her work focuses on China’s foreign and security policy in East Asia and South Asia. The ECFR has offices in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Sofia and Warsaw; she works from Berlin. The ECFR's Website is www.ecfr.eu. Abstract This paper