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    "Sick man of Europe" is a label given to a state located in Europe experiencing economic difficulties, social unrest or impoverishment. It is most famously...
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  • taken advantage of by the great powers. It originates in a play on the concept of a "sick man of Europe". The term "sick man of Europe" was initially coined...
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    Sick Man of Europe had booked. Randy "Xeno" Hogan was hired as lead vocalist and Rick Szeluga as bassist. The band continued to use the name Sick Man...
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    out in the 1990s, so that by the end of the century and the early 2000s it was ridiculed as "the sick man of Europe." It suffered a short recession in 2003...
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  • solo album, taken from the "Show Me Heaven" single, while "Sick Man of Europe" was one of the band names used by Nielsen and Petersson in the early 1970s...
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  • Eastern question (category Politics of the Ottoman Empire)
    political considerations of the European great powers in light of this. Characterized as the "sick man of Europe", the relative weakening of the empire's military...
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    Tom Petersson (category Place of birth missing (living people))
    Cheap Trick, Petersson played in a number of bands, including the Bol Weevils, the Grim Reapers, Sick Man of Europe, and Fuse. He started out playing electric...
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    2023 United Kingdom budget (category Premiership of Rishi Sunak)
    Keir Starmer, the Leader of the Opposition, who accused the Conservatives of turning the UK back into the "Sick man of Europe", while Rachel Reeves, the...
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    Rick Nielsen (category American people of Danish descent)
    short time (replacing Todd Rundgren) before forming the short-lived Sick Man of Europe in Philadelphia in 1972 with Tom Petersson, and drummer Bun E. Carlos...
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    Middle East. However, it remained in decline and became known as the sick man of Europe, losing territory in the Balkans and North Africa. The remaining powers...
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  • The British disease (category Economic history of the United Kingdom)
    the period of economic stagnation in the United Kingdom in the 1970s at the time the country was widely described as the "sick man of Europe". It was characterised...
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  • vanishing man zones out in PMQs pasting". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 November 2022. Wheeler, Richard (15 March 2023). "Starmer says UK is sick man of Europe, as...
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    Somaliland in 1899–90, Eritrea and 1899, and, taking advantage of the "Sick man of Europe," the Ottoman Empire, also conquered Tripolitania and Cyrenaica...
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  • out in the 1990s, so that by the end of the century and the early 2000s it was ridiculed as "the sick man of Europe." It suffered a short recession in 2003...
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    PIGS (economics) (category Pejorative terms for European people)
    the pejorative English term for the Romani people. List of country groupings Sick man of Europe "PIGS slaughtered". Mining Journal. London: Aspermont UK...
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    Dolmabahçe Palace (category Government of the Ottoman Empire)
    the "sick man of Europe" by the European powers. The palace was home to six Sultans from 1856, when it was first inhabited, up until the abolition of the...
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  • Population decline (category Aftermath of war)
    Nicholas Eberstadt. 2005. "Russia, the Sick Man of Europe". Public Interest, Winter 2005 "Russia, the sick man of Europe | Public Interest | Find Articles...
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    International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 36, Issue # 2, page 208. Worringer, Renée "'Sick Man of Europe' or 'Japan of the near East'?: Constructing...
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    Near East (category Geography of the Middle East)
    two Balkan Wars of 1912–13. The Ottoman Empire, believed to be about to collapse, was portrayed in the press as the "sick man of Europe". The Balkan states...
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    Cheap Trick (category Culture of Rockford, Illinois)
    Philadelphia in 1971. From 1972 to 1973, they called themselves Sick Man of Europe. After a European tour in 1973, Nielsen and Petersson returned to Rockford...
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    of the West by Oswald Spengler Dumbing down Idiocracy, a 2006 science fiction comedy film Managed decline Pax Americana Rust Belt Sick man of Europe Societal...
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    most of the participants were not satisfied with the outcome. The Ottomans were humiliated and had their weakness confirmed as the "sick man of Europe"....
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    out in the 1990s, so that by the end of the century and the early 2000s it was ridiculed as "the sick man of Europe". It suffered a short recession in 2003...
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    the Great Powers (such as Sick man of Europe) and other empires (such as Transformation of the Ottoman Empire), and the kinds of people who became imperialists...
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  • International relations since 1989 (category European political history)
    out in the 1990s, so that by the end of the century and the early 2000s it was ridiculed as "the sick man of Europe."[citation needed] It suffered a short...
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    Dustmann, Christian, et al. "From sick man of Europe to economic superstar: Germany's resurgent economy." Journal of economic perspectives 28.1 (2014):...
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  • Superpower (category Types of countries)
    consensus. This led to some economists to refer to Britain as the Sick Man of Europe. In 1976, the United Kingdom had to seek assistance from the International...
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    Albania–Yugoslavia relations (category Bilateral relations of Albania)
    themselves the remaining European territory of the sick man of Europe. While their earlier efforts were fueled with the intention of national liberation,...
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    "Tories turning UK into 'sick man of Europe,' says top party donor". The Independent. 24 October 2022. "Britain is the sick man of Europe once again". The Economist...
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  • characterization as "the sick man of Europe". To combat it, Sultan Abdul Hamid II dispatches Bonkowski Pasha, the empire's chief inspector of public health, and...
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