At 0705 GMT, futures for Euro STOXX 50, Germany's DAX and France's CAC were 0.1 to 0.3 percent lower.

The FTSEurofirst 300 index closed 2.1 percent higher at 1,157.40 points in the previous session, fuelled by approval by US legislators of a deal to halt automatic spending cuts and tax hikes, which threatened to tip the world's biggest economy into recession.