Editing Sick man of Europe (section)

=== Italy ===
In 1972, [[Italian Democratic Socialist Party|PSDI]] politician [[Luigi Preti]] wrote a book titled ''Sick Italy'' ({{Lang|it|Italia malata}}). In it, he says that [[Italy]] was at risk of becoming "the sick man of Europe who has proved unable to keep in step as soon as he reached the first milestone on the road to well‐being".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hofmann |first=Paul |date=26 November 1972 |title=Spreading Malaise Vexes Italy |pages=1 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/26/archives/spreading-malaise-vexes-italy-growing-malaise-worries-italians.html}}</ref>

In May 2005, this title was again attributed to Italy, with ''The Economist'' describing it as "the real sick man of Europe". This refers to Italy's structural and political difficulties thought to inhibit economic reforms to relaunch economic growth. In 2018, [[Italy]] was again referred to as the "sick man of Europe" following post-election deadlock.<ref>{{cite web|author=Mehreen Khan|url=https://www.ft.com/.../ac7e7446-20c9-11e8-9efc-0cd3483b8b80 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/.../ac7e7446-20c9-11e8-9efc-0cd3483b8b80 |archive-date=2022-12-10 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Italy's populists are Juncker's big headache|website=Financial Times|accessdate=6 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/surveys/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5164061 |title=Addio, dolce vita |newspaper=The Economist | date=24 November 2005}}</ref> In 2008, in an opinion piece criticizing the country's approach to economic reform, ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' also used the term to describe Italy,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3557277/Italy-The-sick-man-of-Europe.html |title=Italy: The sick man of Europe |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=2008-04-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091220040904/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3557277/Italy-The-sick-man-of-Europe.html |archive-date=2009-12-20|url-status=live|access-date=3 May 2023}}</ref> as did a [[CNBC]] op-ed in 2020.<ref>[https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/03/italy-the-sick-man-of-europe-tries-to-administer-its-own-medicine.html "Op-Ed: Italy, the 'sick man of Europe', tries to administer its own medicine"]. ''CNBC'', 3 March 2020.</ref>