Recent reports on European economic and construction sector health and outlook make for almost exclusively positive reading. After the EU economy enjoyed its strongest growth in gross domestic product in a decade in 2017, the overviews and forecasts for the first part of 2018 state that not only has expansion continued to date, it is set to persist through the rest of the year and into 2019.  In the Spring 2018 Forecast from the European Commission Directorate General of Economics and Financial Affairs (ECFIN), almost all the EU country summaries are strongly upbeat. The one exception is the ...