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BRUSSELS - The EU will, from 20 December, ban almost all forms of business co-operation with Crimea despite doubt on the future of its sanctions regime. The new law - agreed on Dec. 18 and seen by EUobserver - is designed to give teeth to EU non-recognition of Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian region in March. 

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