In welcome news to wholesale Europe, suppliers and distributors, the fourth quarter of 2010 sees the EU looking to help EU businesses establish a foothold in new markets, particularly in Africa. Amongst these initiatives may be the EU-Africa Partnership, could be the EU’s only continent-to-continent strategic partnership. The EU-Africa Partnership is really a genuine, complete partnership, based on frequent interests and business advancement for b2b online marketing.

In a associated EU-Africa advancement, France recently announced it can be looking for to team with Turkey for joint European trade missions in Africa, largely to counter the growing energy of China in winning contracts on the continent.

"If French organization gets together with massive Turkish conglomerates, it's going to be much more powerful in Africa, central Asia plus the close to and Middle East," explained a French source, who asked not to be named. "That way France will avoid receiving swept aside by the Chinese in Africa”.

"I have proposed to our Turkish friends to run joint missions by Turkey and France, Turkey and Britain, in Africa, exactly where rivalry is such that it's often the Chinese who win the contracts”, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner mentioned. "Turkey and France could join forces to make much more powerful bids".

Within the European Union, Europe suppliers, makers and distributors celebrated an announcement by Poland that the Polish government planned amendments to the country’s constitution intended to ease the country's planned entry in to the eurozone. Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said he was in favour of Poland's entry into the eurozone as "quickly as possible," with a likely target between 2014-2016.