Chart support also underpinned futures near recent lows, while reluctant selling by farmers also lent general support.
March milling wheat, the most active contract on the Paris-based Euronext exchange, was up 0.25 euro at 160.25 euros ($188.58) a tonne by 1623 GMT in very thin volumes.
The contract again held the 160 euros support level after briefly slipping to a two-week low of 159.75 euros on Thursday.
The European market was not given any impetus by Chicago, where wheat futures struggled to hold on to earlier gains and remained near an 11-month low touched this week.
"The 160 euro mark is acting as an important psychological support level but there are good reasons for the market to go lower," one futures dealer said.
Supply and demand fundamentals have pressured wheat markets this season, with a record Russian harvest intensifying export competition and leaving European Union shipments well below last season's level.
In Germany, feed wheat prices remained higher than at some port markets.
Standard bread wheat with 12 percent protein content for January delivery in Hamburg was offered for sale unchanged at 3.5-4 euros over Paris March.
Feed wheat prices at the South Oldenburg market were once more above milling wheat, with January delivery offered for sale at around 173.5 euros a tonne, with buyers at about 173 euros.
In Poland, slow exports have also led milling wheat to lose its usual premium over feed markets.
Feed wheat prices fell by 10-15 zloty on the week to 660-690 zloty (156.5-163.6 euros) a tonne for delivery to factory in December. The same prices were being paid by flour mills for 12.5 percent protein wheat.
"Prices fell slightly again this week due to lower domestic demand, lack of new export business and the general slowdown before Christmas," one Polish trader said.
"Polish feed producers built up some inventories, buying at lower prices."
Export activity remained slack.
"Only one 35,000 tonne vessel is loading wheat in Gdynia, thought to be for Turkey for their last wheat tender. In Stettin, one small vessel is loading 5,000 tonnes for Portugal," the trader said.
But exporters were showing buying interest for Polish 14 percent protein wheat at 740-745 zloty a tonne delivered to port silo in December/January, the same level as last week.