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The FEPA Board has unanimously agreed in granting the requested FEPA Recognition to MonacoPhil 2019 to be held from 28 – 30 November 2019. Amongst its events will be celebrated the FEPA Congress 2019

Amongst the events of the FEPA Exhibition “EXFILNA 2018”, on the 3rd of November were held in Seville at the “Archivo General de Indias” a cycle of conferences in front of a numerous and interested public coming from Spain, Colombia, Argentina, Panama, Portugal, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany

At the 2018 General Meeting of the Working Group of Maximaphily and Postcards were honoured Günter Formery (D), Jean-Louis Reuter and Jos Wolff (L)

Italia 2018 International Literature Exhibition is approaching and jurors have already started their work using the special software prepared for the evaluation. As that allows more flexibility, applications for participation can be entered till 10 November at www.italia2018.eu

The 2018 CIFO and Giorgio Khouzam Foundation “Giovanni Riggi di Numana Award” has been given to her “For carrying out an in-depth research and study on forty-two letters sent by Isabella d'Este Gonzaga to his brother, Cardinal Ippolito d'Este, in the years 1504-1506, preserved in the Secret Archive Estense of Modena”.

Three members of The Royal Philatelic Society London showed aspects of Latin America at the meeting held on 4 October. John Shaw MBE FRPSL displayed traditional philately of Paraguay and Haiti, Glen Stafford showed Nicaragua postal stationery, while Ray Todd OAM RDP FRPSL chose traditional philately of Chile, postal history of Haiti and postal stationery of Paraguay.

Monsieur Pascal Bandry has kindly sent us the result of the competition for the best Maximum Card of 2017, organized under the chairmanship of Mrs. Jenny Banfield, President of the FIP Commission for Maximaphily. The result: 21 countries participation Votes…

Most of the FEPA Awards of the year were presented in Prague on occasion of the FEPA Congress, while some were already handed out and two will be presented in November on occasion of FEPA Exhibitions in Spain and Italy

On the 19th of August was held in Prague the 2018 FEPA Congress with the participation of 38 National Federations. It was a very alive and interesting meeting within a positive and friendly atmosphere. Were handed out the FEPA Gold Pin to the Member’s Presidents present at the Congress and the FEPA Awards of the year.

The Romanian Philatelic Federation together with the Museum of Romanian Records will organize the BALKANFILA 2020, an exhibition for the Balkan countries, in the period 17-20 September, 2020, being special guests the Philatelic Federations of Israel and Egypt.

Since 2016 the European Academy of Philately has created the European Parliament Award in agreement with this major European institution, which thus recognizes the relevance of the vision, missions and values of the European Academy of Philately

On occasion of "Praga 2018" were held many appealing events. We will post here quite a few of them. Now, the FEPA Seminars on Picture Postcards presented in front of a very interested audience by Birthe King, Bojan Bracic and José Ramón Moreno , with the whole PowerPoint Presentations availables for downloading. 

ESTEX 2018 was a huge effort from the International Estonian Philatelic Society (REFS) "Estonia". It proved to be a well organized event with many happy visitors.

Praga 2018 international stamp exhibition is about to begin!

We have the sad task to inform that Ingolf Kapelrud, FRPSL passed away on the evening of the 10th of July 2018 at the age of 74. He was President of FEPA 1995-2001, and Honorary FEPA President since 2001. He was a fantastic philatelist who worked very hard for philately. He was also an extremely kind person and we were lucky to have worked together and to became a good friend of him. Rest in peace.

We received the kind offer of Mr. Frank Walton RDP FRPSL, Chairman of the London 2020 Organising Committee, to host the 2020 FEPA Congress at the news Royal premises. Here you can see some of the rooms that could be used for the Congress.

The Exhibition is open to all Classes and to all European Federations as well as to exhibits related to Europe from all over the World. Literature Class also open to entries from all the World. The FEPA Board has been pleased granting by unanimity the FEPA Patronage.

We are pleased to post the official Program of the WSC Israel 2018 to be held in Jerusalem from the 27th to the 31st May 2018.

The Revenue Salon “World of Revenues", devoted solely to fiscal philately, to be held in Essen, Germany, in May 2019, has issued its Bulletin number 1.

At the General Assembly of the Spanish Federation were awarded the 2018 FESOFI’s Medal, the highest recognition of the Spanish Federation. The Individual Medal was granted to the FEPA President, José Ramón Moreno, while the Collective Medal was for the Rioja’s Philatelic and Numismatic Society.

The "Lehrsammlung Philatelie", compiled by Siegfried Nestler, provides valuable know-how for every stamp collector. It is not only informative for teenagers and beginners, but also for advanced philatelists and professionals - and an indispensable reference book for every club library.

At the Annual General Meeting of the Federation of Philatelic Societies of Ireland, the following Executive Council Members were elected.

The Exhibition will commemorate the 500 Anniversary of the death of Emperor Maximilian of Austria. It will be held in Wiener Neustadt, the home city of the Emperor, from the 18th to the 20th of October 2019, organized by the Briefmarkensammlerverein Wiener Neustadt.

One hundred years since the purchase of its legendary headquarters at 41 Devonshire Place, London W1, The Royal Philatelic Society London is moving to new and larger premises in the historic centre of the City of London at 15 Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BW.

It is hereby announced that a selection for the awarding of one Doctorate Prize totaling €3,000.00 aiming to be a fantastic tool to promote philately and postal history! The Chairman of the Selection Board will be the Attorney at law Giorgio Khouzam; the Board’s Secretary will be Dr. Claudio E. M. Manzati, CIFO’s President.

The FEPA Board carefully considered the proposals received from the member Federations for the FEPA Medals 2017 at its meeting in Milan on 3 February 2018. The recipients are Ivan Libric, Raul Moreira and Brian Trotter.

We are pleased to inform that Croatia hosts the next 2018 Alps-Adria Exhibition with the participation of its seven countries. It will be in October 25 -28th 2018 in the beautiful city of Varazdin at the Croatian National Theater. The Bulletin number 1 has just been published.

Zbigniew Mikulski, RDP, died in Switzerland at the age of 92. A legendary Polish philatelist has passed away. Let him rest in peace.

The very active Postal Stationery FIP Commission has issued its first issue of the year which contains interesting information and articles as “A New Discovery”, “Card Stock Ecuador”, “News from the Delegates”, “Literature Review”, “PS Society Journals” among others. Well done!

On the 14th of January, Anthony Virvilis had an interview talking about the positive aspects of our hobby and about the actual problems in the philately. It is a bilingual text French and English of top interest.

We are receiving the January issue of Philatelie. It includes articles as “Bdph: Image change through a modern appearance”, “The Post of Northern Germany 1868-1871”, “Social Philately in the discussion”, a most interesting debate and so many appealing...

Just beginning the New Year , we are receiving this extraordinary work, the biggest and better of this kind ever done in Spanish language and may be even in any other language. It is the result of five years of great efforts of the authors: more than 1860 entries and around 2000 related meanings, with the same number of full colour images on 428 A4 pages. It is a key tool not only for the Spanish speaking Philatelic Community, but also for the thousands philatelists from all around the world who collects some philatelic areas related to the over 20 countries which official language is Spanish...

It is with great sadness that we have known that Lim Sa Bee has passed away on 27 December 2017, at the age of 74. We will always remember his kindness, always ready to help to philatelists from all parts of the world. Our deepest condolences. We lost a great philatelist and a great friend. Rest in peace.