Tense wild tale about European politician and model (8)
I believe the answer is:
template
'model' is the definition.
(template is a kind of model)
'tense wild tale about european politician' is the wordplay.
'tense' becomes 't' (abbreviation used in many dictionaries).
'wild' indicates an anagram.
'about' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'european' becomes 'e' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'politician' becomes 'mp'.
'tale' anagrammed gives 'late'.
'e'+'mp'='emp'
'late' put after 'emp' is 'emplate'.
't'+'emplate'='TEMPLATE'
'and' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for template that I've seen before include "Something used as a pattern" , "Pattern for cutting out shapes" , "Model, example to follow" , "Shaped pattern" , "Pattern for document etc" .)