Handling Eurostat data based on different NUTS years

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Different NUTS years lead to different shapefiles associated with different datasets. This is currently dealt with by having a mapping table to define which NUTS regions in each NUTS year correspond to which of the 'eurospores' 98 regions. A better approach would be to combine all eurostat data with corresponding NUTS shapefiles early on, and store them as rasters. Then, any euro-calliope regionalisation can mask the datasets without needing a mapping table.