Ignorant French article precedes a fight with Europe (7)
I believe the answer is:
unaware
'ignorant' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
'french article precedes a fight with europe' is the wordplay.
'french article' becomes 'un' (indefinite article in French).
'precedes' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (some letters come before others).
'fight' becomes 'war' (warring is a kind of fighting).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'europe' becomes 'E' (abbreviation eg in E number).
'un'+'a'+'war'+'e'='UNAWARE'
(Other definitions for unaware that I've seen before include "Ignorant, oblivious" , "Ignorant - unenlightened" , "Not cognisant" , "Heedless" , "Not congnisant (of)" .)