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The topic of the exhibition will be the 100th anniversary of the VII° Olympic Games of Antwerp in 1920. The City of Antwerp commemorates the Olympic Games with an Impressive Program of which Antverpiade 2020 will be part of it. The exhibition will be held from the 28th to the 30th of August as the Belgian National Championship of Philately with International participation of the Dutch (KNBF) and the French (FFAP) Federations. All day long YouTube based movies of the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp will run on television screens. Thanks to the cooperation with Sportimonium (The official Olympic Museum) a lot of unique items will be present at the Exhibition. Read more…

The Exhibition, organized by the “Fédération des Sociétés philatéliques du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg” (FSPL) has the auspices of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke and the auspices of Mr. Xavier Bettel, Minister of State, Mme Lydie Polfer, Mayor of the City of Luxembourg and FEPA Recognition. Will be held from 8 to 10 November 2019, participating exhibitors from The Netherlands, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland and Slovenia Read more…

We have been kindly informed of the new Board elected on the 14th of September with Julije Maras as Prtesident and Stevo Kovačić, Vice-president. The Croatian Federation has also changed of address… Read more…

More than 200 members attended a superb display of New South Wales and Western Australia material from the Royal Philatelic Collection at the opening meeting.  Charles Oppenheim presented the publication ‘The History of the Royal Philatelic Society London 1869 – 2019.’  This was followed by Chris Harman’s vote of thanks and the reading of the Notice of Thanks to Her Majesty The Queen… Read more…

The new Board of the Austrian Federation — Verband Österreichischer Philatelisten-Vereine, was elected on Friday, 20th of September 2019 by the members of the Austrian Philatelic clubs.
President: Mag. Helmut Kogler as before, Vice-President: Ing. Alfred Kunz as before, Secretary: Mag. Erich Böck… Read more…

It is with great regret that we have to report the death of Gary Brown. He died last Friday, September 13th at the age of 69. He died sitting at his computer working on an exhibit. Rest in peace such wonderful person and great philatelist Read more…

The Board of Directors of the European Academy of Philately – AEP has approved the 2019 Awards. The winners are: Henk Slabbinck for the European Parliament Award, Patrick Maselis for the European Philatelic Merit and Guy Dutau for the European Philatelic Literature Award… Read more…

146 collections from 16 countries were represented – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brazil, Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Ukraine, USA. Competitive exhibits were presented in seven exhibition classes. Postal administrations of different countries… Read more…