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All FEPA News issues are now available in digital form

The whole run 1 – 37 of the FEPA News journal has now been digitized and are readily available on this website! The process took longer than expected as the digitization project was launched almost exactly one year ago, namely July 25, 2019.

The issues contain a lot of information about the past events in Europe. They also illuminate the work of the FEPA, the Board, as well as the member Federations. There are lots of good reasons to go back to the history of European philately starting from 2002.

The digitized journals can be found here.

3.8.2020

News

IBRA 2021 postponed to 2023

The Bund Deutscher Philatelisten e.V. has today given the following press release:

World Exhibition IBRA 2021 will be postponed – Planning Uncertainties because of Corona Pandemic

(BDPh) The World Stamp Exhibition IBRA will be postponed because of the corona pandemic. This was decided by the Board of Bund Deutscher Philatelisten e.V. (BDPh) during an extraordinary meeting together with members of the IBRA core team. „We sincerely regret this, but the planning uncertainties are too high“, BDPh President Alfred Schmidt said after the phone conference. The IBRA is now scheduled for 2023, talks with the Messe Essen have already started. At the moment BDPh prefers a new date in May 2023.

Alfred Schmidt and BDPh General Commissioner Walter Bernatek pointed out that the Federation did not take the decision lightly: „Unfortunately the current situation left us with no choice when looking at all facts and assessments.“ Before that the general situation of the pandemic, applicable hygiene concepts, general regulations of events as well as developments in worldwide air traffic respectively travel warnings and quarantining rules had been analysed and weighted.

The Federation thanks all sponsors as well as the numerous patrons, who have in the past months contributed considerable sums to IBRA. Here as well talks will be held in order to agree on the further cooperation and possibly change the contracts accordingly.

At the same time Alfred Schmidt and Walter Bernatek pointed to the good cooperation with FIP, the World Federation of Philately. The talks with FIP President Bernard Beston (Australia) and the responsible FIP Consultant Reinaldo Macedo (Brasil) had always been constructive. „We will talk now together with our partners about the further route to IBRA in Germany“, the BDPh Management announced.

In the past months numerous large philatelic events have been cancelled or postponed due to the corona pandemic. For 2021 some exhibitions were already rescheduled or cancelled as well, others are meanwhile planned for 2022. In order to avoid overlaps or too tight sequence of exhibitions in 2022, the decision making was directed to 2023.

28.7.2020