About the talk:

Edward Lucas is the Central and Eastern European correspondent for The Economist and is deputy editor of the International section. Over his career as a journalist, he has covered Russia and Central and Eastern Europe and has unique insights into the political and economic climate of the former communist countries and how developments there will affect the West. Foreign Policy magazine named him in their Who's Who of Foreign Policy Tweeters in Europe. Edward's talk was about Eastern Europe -- a concept that never really existed, doesn't exist now and certainly shouldn't exist in our "new normal" and his aim is to persuade everyone to stop using it.

Recorded during: TEDxKraków 2011

About the speaker:

…journalist and Central and Eastern European correspondent for The Economist. He believes that Eastern Europe is a concept that never really existed, doesn't exist now and certainly shouldn't exist in our "new normal". He wants to persuade everyone to stop using it.

Original subtitles: Jerzy Paź (reviewed by Krystian Aparta)

Translated by: Kinga Skorupska (reviewed by Krystian Aparta)