The small business sector is being urging to wake up, smell the coffee and get ready to take advantage of the huge opportunities that the recent expansion of the European Union (EU) will provide.
On 1 May, following years of planning and negotiations, 10 new member states from Central and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean were welcomed with open arms into the EU. The economic implications are enormous; the latest EU expansion has created a single market that is bigger than the USA and Japan combined, comprising of some 74 million new customers.
