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In April 2007, The Economist described Portugal as "a new sick man of Europe"

Also in 2007 a report prepared by Morgan Stanley referred to France as the "new sick man of Europe"

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The term was first applied to the Ottoman Empire. That would now be where modern Turkey is and some of the other areas of south-eastern Europe .

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Turkey (the Ottoman Empire).

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