Eclipse:invalid project description

I try to create a new maven project in eclipse, I receive an error:

Invalid project description

What I did to workaround the problem:

1. Go to "%ECLIPSE_HOME%\configuration\.settings" and delete the workspace listed at the key RECENT_WORKSPACES
2. Restart Eclipse, go to File>Switch Workspace>Other... and select your workspace dir again
3. Now I could create new projects as always

Then it works