A name, in some general elections, for European monetary union (6)
I believe the answer is:
lemuel
'european monetary union' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.
'a name in some general elections' is the wordplay.
'a name' becomes 'Lem'.
'in some general elections' becomes 'uel' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'lem'+'uel'='LEMUEL'
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for lemuel that I've seen before include "First name of Dean Swift's Gulliver" , "First name of Gulliver, he of the Travels" , "Gulliver's first name" .)