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What follows revolutionary French article tackling ‘European question’? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sequel

'what follows' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'revolutionary french article tackling 'european question'?' is the wordplay.
'revolutionary' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (letters revolve around).
'french article' becomes 'les' (plural definite article in French).
'tackling' is an insertion indicator (to tackle is to take possession of).
''european' becomes 'E' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'question'?' becomes 'qu' (abbreviation).
'les' in reverse letter order is 'sel'.
'e'+'qu'='equ'
'sel' placed around 'equ' is 'SEQUEL'.

(Other definitions for sequel that I've seen before include "Book etc. continuing story" , "Something following an earlier event" , "Following film" , "Consequence" , "Follow-up work" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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