French and English, European and democratic (4)
I believe the answer is:
free
'democratic' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'french and english european' is the wordplay.
'french' becomes 'fr'.
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'european' becomes 'e' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'fr'+'e'+'e'='FREE'
'and' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for free that I've seen before include "Not fixed; not in use" , "like some public houses" , "See 18" , "Untrammelled" , "Unrestrained" .)