European leader giving European rejection about a European (8)
I believe the answer is:
napoleon
'european leader giving european rejection' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'about a european' is the wordplay.
'about' says the letters should be written backwards.
'a' becomes 'an'.
'european' becomes 'poleon' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'an' back-to-front is 'na'.
'na'+'poleon'='NAPOLEON'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for napoleon that I've seen before include "leader in France, once" , "Leading pig in Animal Farm" , "Open loan to the French general. strangely" , "French emperor, d.1821" , "Old French coin" .)