Malice shown by Democrat, European, notwithstanding (7)
I believe the answer is:
despite
'notwithstanding' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'malice shown by democrat european' is the wordplay.
'malice' becomes 'spite' (spite is a kind of malice).
'shown by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'democrat' becomes 'd'.
'european' becomes 'e' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'd'+'e'='de'
'spite' after 'de' is 'DESPITE'.
(Other definitions for despite that I've seen before include "Notwithstanding" , "Without being affected by; contempt" , "Undeterred" , "Regardless of, in defiance of" , "In the face" .)