The Economic, Social, and Environmental Determinants for the Agricultural Output in Some European Union Countries - The Agricultural Economics of the 21st Century - page 55

90

80

70

Germany
Spain
France
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Portugal
United Kingdom

60

50

40

30

20

10

0

1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Fig. 5.6 Agricultural methane emissions (% of total) between European countries

100

90

80

70

Germany
Spain
France
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Portugal
United Kingdom

60

50

40

30

20

10

0

1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Fig. 5.7 Agricultural nitrous oxide emissions (% of total) between European countries

More or less the same can be said about the lending interest rate (Fig. 5.11 ).
Indeed, between the 1970s and the 1990s these rates were high and Portugal and
Greece were the European countries having the most problems with this variable.
Italy and Greece were the countries with more central government debts, from
1995 to 2011 (about 120 % of the GDP), but after 2008 many countries saw their