As with other countries’ measures of industrial production, Eurostat’s industrial production index measures the output and activity of industrial sectors, except in its case, it does so with countries in the European Union. Following a recession in 2009/2010 and the resultant European debt-crisis of 2010-2012, euro-zone industrial production began to recover until a peak was reached four years later in early-2016. Growth rates then slowed through the rest of 2016,...