The way how European integration influences planning is becoming a frequent matter of planning discourse in recent years. Also the changes of EU resulting from its recent enlargement attract attention from scholars, including planners, mostly from the countries of the “old” EU 15. This contribution tries to join the two topics from the viewpoint of an Easterner who has immediate experience of past as well as present issues of planning in East-Central Europe. It deals with specific readings of common European planning challenges and attempts to analyse European impact on domestic planning in these countries.