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New FEPA Exhibition: BALKANFILA 2020 in Bucharest

New FEPA Exhibition: BALKANFILA 2020 in Bucharest

The Romanian Philatelic Federation together with the Museum of Romanian Records will organize the BALKANFILA 2020, a regional philatelic exhibition of Balkan countries, in the period 17-20 September, 2020 to which will be special guests the Philatelic Federation of Israel and the Philatelic Federation of Egypt. The exhibition will have 1,000 frames.

The exhibition will take place in Bucharest at the Parliament Palace and will include all competition classes provided by the FIP and FEPA regulations, as well as a Postcards class.

The FEPA Board unanimously agreed in granting the FEPA Recognition to the BALKANFILA 2020 that will follow the successful series of international exhibitions in Romania.

22.9.2018

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Jan-Olof Ljung and Mats Ingers Grand Prizes of MALMEX 2018 Bilateral Sweden-Denmark FEPA Exhibition

MALMEX 2018

MALMEX 2018 Bilateral Sweden-Denmark National Stamp and Postcard exhibition was organized by a number of philatelic clubs in Skåne within the Swedish Philatelic Federation from the 31st August to the 2^nd September 2018 at MalmöMässan, Malmö. At the same time was also celebrated an Exhibition at Regional level.

The exhibition was approved by the Swedish Philatelic Federation (SFF) with the Recognition of the Federation of European Philatelic Associations (FEPA), being Postiljonen the Main Commercial Partner.

Birthe King, on behalf of FEPA, presents Claes Arnrup with a silver platter and certificate congratulating him on Postiljonen’s 50 year anniversary and also as the Main Commercial Partner at MALMEX 2018.

From the 121 exhibits shown, 89 were in the Bilateral Sweden-Denmark National, while 32 in the Regional. The Jury was Chaired by Fredrik Ydell with Peter Nordin as Jury Secretary. 10 exhibits were awarded with the Gold Medal. The Malmex 2018 Postiljonen Master Grand Prix of the Championship Class was to Jan-Olof Ljung for his exhibit, “From NDP – UPU 1.1.1868-1.7.1875, items sent to overseas destinations”. The Malmex 2018 Spink Grand Prix was to Mats Ingers for his exhibit “Low Denominations 1856-1863 – Traditional philately in the context of Postal History”. The whole results were alredy posted here at https://fepanews.net/malmex-2018-results/.

Left image, the Swedish and the Danish postmarks. Right photo: Lars-Olow Carlsson presents the award to the winner of the Malmex 2018 Postiljonen Master Grand Prix, Jan-Olof Ljung

20.9.2018

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Granted the FEPA Recognition to Alpe-Jadran Fila 2018 Varaždin International Philatelic Exhibition

View of the City of Varaždin and the stamp issued by Croatian Post on 4.6.2018 depicting the
Church of St. Nicholas.

The FEPA Congress granted by unanimity the Recognition to the Alpe-Jadran Fila 2018 Varaždin International Philatelic Exhibition to be held from 18th to 21st October 2018, celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the issue of the first Croatian stamp.

Alpe-Jadran Fila 2018 Varaždin is jointly organized by the Croatian Philatelic Federation, Varaždin County, City of Varaždin and Croatian Post Inc, patronage by the President of the Croatian Parliament, with the FEPA Recognition.

This will be the 23rd exhibition of the Working Group Alpe-Adria Philately. The exhibition will be displayed at the beautiful Croatian National Theater of Varaždin, the Baroque Capital of Croatia.

Varaždin is the cultural, educational, economic, sporting and tourist centre of North western Croatia. It holds 11 ‘Green Flowers’, the national awards for the most ordered city of Croatia.

Lonely Planet – Varaždin holds first place on the list of recommended sites worth visiting in Croatia,
Holder of the ‘Superbrand Destination’ title,
Ten times awarded the title of the best arranged and maintained destination in inland Croatia
Six years running the best tourist destination in inland Croatia
Forbes 2010 – Varaždin the most desirable and pleasant to reside and work in inland Croatia
Varaždin – a bicycle friendly city (Bike and Bed)
Silver Flower of Europe Award 2011

Participation is open to all philatelists who are members of Philatelic Associations from countries & regions affiliated to the Working Group Alpe-Adria Philately, with the Czech exhibitors as special guests. Each collectors can participate in competitive classes with only one exhibit in each classThere will be 350 frames whose will be equally allotted among every country. If a country will not use all allotted frames, those frames will be put on disposal to other countries. The Organizing Committee reserves the right to make changes in assignments.