Former European getting stick (5)
I believe the answer is:
paste
'stick' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'former european getting' is the wordplay.
'former' becomes 'past' (similar in meaning).
'european' becomes 'E' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'getting' says to put letters next to each other.
'past'+'e'='PASTE'
(Other definitions for paste that I've seen before include "Adhesive - thrash" , "(In computing) insert text into a document" , "Thoroughly beat" , "Dough - adhesive - gem substitute" , "food preparation" .)