European forbearance about information in crisis (9)
I believe the answer is:
emergency
'crisis' is the definition.
(I know that emergency is a type of crisis)
'european forbearance about information' is the wordplay.
'european' becomes 'e' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'forbearance' becomes 'mercy' (I've seen this in another clue).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'information' becomes 'gen' (gen can informally mean information).
'mercy' enclosing 'gen' is 'mergency'.
'e'+'mergency'='EMERGENCY'
'in' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for emergency that I've seen before include "It's not expected" , "ward" , "Serious situation requiring immediate action" , "Patient needing immediate care" , "Crisis requiring immediate action" .)