The label eastern europe is dead.

This is no less according to the economist! http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2012/07/%E2%80%9Ceast%E2%80%9D-dead?fsrc=gn_ep&google_editors_picks=true Well done but we could have told you this since 2003 Central europe is a much more appropriate term that is still in common use in Germany as mitteleuropa