Any European country undergoing economic difficulty.
Origin
A calque of a phrase coined by Czar Nicholas I, Romanov, of the Empire of Russia: больно́й челове́к Европы. This name for the Turkish Ottoman Empire refers to the sickly state of the Ottoman state in the 19th century.
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