Meet European by new bar (9)
I believe the answer is:
encounter
'meet' is the definition.
('encounter' can be a synonym of 'meet')
'european by new bar' is the wordplay.
'european' becomes 'e' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'new' becomes 'n'.
'bar' becomes 'counter' (I've seen this before**).
'e'+'n'+'counter'='ENCOUNTER'
(Other definitions for encounter that I've seen before include "Run into - combat" , "See 19" , "Meet; confrontation" , "Unexpected meeting" , "Meet by chance or enexpectedly" .)