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Citizen Input Shapes Policies; UK Blocks Teens' COVID Vaccine

7/2/2026

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September 2025, a Fairfax workshop outlined six ways to embed input in U.S. policy.
From 2015 to 2018, European Union asked citizens in 30 nations to co-create Horizon 2020 priorities.
Denmark’s Board of Technology (now Democracy x) has run a dozen consensus conferences on gene and marine issues since the mid-1980s.
The UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation publishes minutes and reasoning, noting it did not recommend COVID-19 vaccination for 12–15-year-olds.

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Story summary

September 2025, a Fairfax workshop outlined six ways to embed input in U.S. policy.
From 2015 to 2018, European Union asked citizens in 30 nations to co-create Horizon 2020 priorities.
Denmark’s Board of Technology (now Democracy x) has run a dozen consensus conferences on gene and marine issues since the mid-1980s.
The UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation publishes minutes and reasoning, noting it did not recommend COVID-19 vaccination for 12–15-year-olds.