 Complete the following phrase:  The country has been quickly catching up with the EU-15; its GDP per capita having grown from 34.8 of the EU-15 average in 1996 to 65 in 2007, similar to that of Central European countries. It is already rated a high-income country by the World Bank. The GDP PPP per capita of the country, a good indicator of wealth, was 35,974 in 2018 according to the World Bank, between that of Lithuania and Cyprus, but below that of most long-time EU members such as Spain or Italy. Because of its economic performance after the 