Death of European with no middle name (6)
I believe the answer is:
finish
'death of european with no middle name' is the definition.
'finish' can be an answer for 'death' (death is a conclusion or finish). I am not certain of the 'of european with no middle name' bit.
'death of european with no middle' is the wordplay.
'death of european' becomes 'finis' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'no' becomes 'nihil' (synonyms).
'middle' indicates the central letters.
The central letter of 'nihil' is 'h'.
'finis'+'h'='FINISH'
(Other definitions for finish that I've seen before include "Put the final touches to" , "Perfect" , "Conclude, wind up" , "Polish, perhaps" , "Come to an end" .)