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Our deepest gratitude for your collaboration and support all along the year. May this holiday season bring to you and to your family health, joy and good cheer! Merry Christmas!

The first Slovenian Post Stamps with the motif of a slave breaking his chains - the Chainbreakers- symbolising the new State of Slovenes, Croatians and Serbs declared on October 29, 1918. The Slovenian Philatelic Association will commemorate the Centennial of the Chainbreaker stamps with two international events.

Chairman of the Fight against Forgeries FIP Commission, Member of the FIP Expert Team, Fellow of the RPSL, awarded with the Crawford Medal, Roll of Distinguished Philatelists, President of the Consilium Philateliae Helveticae, he was a giant of the Postal History research and a wonderful person.

The specialised biennial philatelic exhibition with international participation OsmoOkno (“EighthWindows”) Kranj 2017 was therefore already the eighth meeting of one-frame exhibits from ten countries – Austria, BiH Republika Srpska, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia and - for the second time – Israel as a special guest.

At the last FEPA Congress during FINLANDIA 2017, was approved the kind offer of the Organizing Committee of PRAGA 2018 to host the FEPA Congress 2018. Now you can see all details to prepare your trip.

The First Czech-German Stamp Exhibition PRAGA PICCOLA 2017 has been organized in Prague in parallel with the Collector Fair as the last qualification event for the PRAGA 2018 Specialized World Stamp Exhibition.

The Exhibition will take place from the 23th to 26th of August 2018. Gmunden was already the first European city hosting for three consecutive years a FEPA Exhibition. Now this record with be extended to four FEPA Exhibitions in a row. This deserves a very special and warm congratulations!

TC News, the Bulletin of the FIP Thematic Commission, Chaired by Peter Suhadolc from Slovenia and with Jari Majander from Finland as new Editor, has issued a new number plenty of interesting articles and useful information all along its 44 pages.

The genuine stamps and postmarks, forgeries, errors, variations in printing and fiscal stamps published by Prof. Dr. Jovan Basho, from Albania, for the local stamps of Republic of Korça, under French Military Administration from Dec. 1916 to May 1918.

With the participation of 59 National Federations, of which 21 FEPA members, BRASILIA 2017 is being a successful and high level exhibition. From the 427 exhibits has been awarded 18 Large Gold and 74 Gold Medals. Now you can see and download the whole Palmares by Class and by Country.

On the 12th of October, Chris King sent a message to the philatelic community explaining that he intends to stand for President at the Congress in 2018, with the support of the British Federation, and welcoming support from all philatelists and their federations. His objective is to secure the future of international philately.

Mr. Alberto de León was the winner of the Exfilna 2017 Grand Prix. Mr. Luis Alemany won the Grand Prix of the Championship Class. Mr. Ramón Cortés won the Prix to the best Postal History exhibit. María Teresa Miralles received the Prix for the best Thematic, while the Hungarian Artúr Bánás won the Prix of the Olympic Academy.

As many as 1280 big posters of the FEPA Exhibition EXFILNA 2017, Spanish National Exhibition with international participation, have flooded the lampposts of Portugalete, Bilbao and neighboring towns.

Christoph Gärtner established the CG International Philatelic Promotion Award aiming to promote the preservation of philatelic knowledge by supporting new publications .This competition aims to consider print media, digital media and the promotion of young talent as a whole.

FEPA Vice President Giancarlo Morolli was presented the “Fulvio Apollonio” award as “Journalist of the Year” by USFI.

Mr. Orlin Todorov has asked us to post the following information completing the news that we had already published about the composition of the Board of the Union of the Bulgarian Philatelists. We are pleased to attach the file received.

The Youth Commission of the German Federation has printed the September issue. Directed by Axel Brockmann, one of the Speakers of the successful FEPA Youth Symposium, the main theme is “All the happiness of the earth lies on the back of the horses” focusing on the great love for the animals of many children.

The Bilateral Stamp Exhibition Oldenburg 2017 was organized with the participation of the Bund Deutscher Philatelisten e.V. (BDPh) and the Danmarks Filatelist Forbund (DFF).

The Association of British Philatelic Societies, ABPS, issued yesterday a Newsletter updating its very interesting forthcoming activities.

The Royal Philatelic Society London (RPSL) will celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2019. For this occasion an international exhibition will be held in Stockholm. H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has graciously agreed to be the Patron.

On the 27th of May was celebrated the successful FEPA Symposium of Youth Philately. As promised, here you have the full eight presentations.

The Federation of Turkish Philatelic Associations (TFDF) is informing us that at its meeting of 15 June 2017, the board members approved the bylaws of its Turkish Philatelic Expert Committee (FEK) and appointed the committee's members.

Following the request of the Swedish Federation, on the 2nd of July the FEPA Board has unanimously agreed in granting the FEPA Recognition to the Exhibition MALMEX 2018 to be held in Malmö, Sweden, from August 31th to September 2nd 2018.

During the process of Austro-Hungarian Compromise, under the temporary postal treaty, the Hungarian Post regained its independence on 1 May 1867.

The Federation of Italian Philatelic Societies organises the international exhibition of philatelic literature “Italia 2018” which will be held in Milan in March 2018, in the framework of the philatelic event Milanofil (a large trade convention with international attendance).

Following six years of painstaking study and exhaustive research, John Daes, presented us with a ground-breaking addition to international literature: Hellenic postal rates 1828-1875, Volume A (1828-1861), 569 pages; Volume B (1861-1875) 659 pages; the list of contents and some comments are also translated into English.

Just finishing the extraordinary FINLANDIA 2017, and we are receiving updated information about another exciting FEPA Exhibition in the Nordic countries: The Nordic Stamp show, NORDIA 2017 and the 4th International Polar Philatelic Exhibition that will take place in the city of Vejle, Denmark, on Oct. 27 - 29.

The control of the Tampere Hall has counted 8.789 visitors on the 24 and 25 of May, the two first days of the Exhibition, surpassing all the expectations. Were very busy the dealers, the Postal Administrations stands with also many visitors looking at the frames.

At the General Meeting of the Slovenian Philatelic Association held on the 20th of May 2017, the FEPA Secretary General Mr. Bojan Bračič, presented the Certificate of Appreciation as best Club of Europe 2016 being received by Mr. Srečko Beričič, President of the Club.

The Silver weddings of the JUVENIAS in fact have been Gold weddings, since although it was the 25th Edition of the Spanish Youth Exhibitions, there were also near 50 years of national exhibitions with Spanish philately turned towards the future and this year with the Recognition of FEPA and international participation, gathering 106 Youth Exhibits.

We are receiving from the European Academy of Philately the information of a new publication: the impressive work of Guy Dutau “ Disinfected Mail in France and in the occupied countries". Bilingual English/French explanations of the 600 - 700 full color images as well as English summary at the end of each chapter. The book, begin with the diseases that have justified the disinfection of the mail and then...

The Maximaphily Commission of the FSPL has issued four maximum cards using the special stamps produced by Post Philately „Personalities 2017“ to commemorate three personalities and the 125 years of the Fieldgen private school.

At the Annual General Meeting of the Hellenic Philatelic Federation has been elected its new Board for the next two years, as follows: