Euan's getting rope from the continent (8)
I believe the answer is:
european
'from the continent' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
'euan's getting rope' is the wordplay.
'getting' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'euan' placed around 'rope' is 'EUROPEAN'.
(Other definitions for european that I've seen before include "EU native" , "Citizen of the Union" , "possibly from Italy" , "'Belgian, Spaniard or Greek, say (8)'" , "Pole, perhaps" .)