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Praga 2018 international stamp exhibition is about to begin!

Pedro Vaz Pereira , specialist in the research of the 1st Portuguese Republic (1910-1926) presented a new book in this framework at the Portuguese Academy of History, “The Secular Republican Missions and the Historical and Missionaries Misconceptions of the Catholic Church”.

Portugal, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Spain, Finland, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland participated in the 12th EuroScout held in Évora, Portugal. It also hosted the 37th World Scout & Guide Collectors Meeting, being elected new President Estanislao Pan de Alfaro.

The Swedish Federation is very active in Open Philately Class. We are pleased to post the very interesting article that we are receiving from Peter Nordin and Bo Dahlner.

These are guaranteed by the Zurich-based Notime, 51% of which has now been acquired by Swiss Post. The employees speed through the city using bicycles.

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...

Franco Rigo’s just printed new book on 'Postal History of Venice' bilingual Italian-English tells the post services available and the disinfections utilized for the correspondence between Constantinople to Venice and vice versa.

With only a few weeks in between, the Portuguese philately has celebrated two important events: the National Exhibition PORTIMÃO-2018 and “THE PHILATELY OF AZORES”

At the General Assembly, during Monacophil, took place the change of presidency of the Académie Européenne de Philatélie between Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi, Italy, and the new President, Jean Voruz, Switzerland.

From November 30th to December 2nd, Monaco has focused the philatelic World. MonacoPhil 2017, opened its doors on the Terrasses de Fontvieille, in the presence of Prince Albert.

It is great news to see prominent philatelists depicted in official stamps. On the 16th of November 2017, the Hellenic Post has issued a commemorative set of six stamps in panes of 25 devoted to leading philatelists.

Pascal Bandry, member representing FEPA at the Bureau of the FIP Maximaphily Commission leaded by Jenny Banfield has sent us the just issued Newsletter number one of which Pascal is also the responsible.

On the 11th of November the FEPA Board has been pleased to grant the requested FEPA Recognition to LONDON 2020 International Stamp Exhibition. Will be held at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London from Saturday 2 May 2020 until Saturday 9 May 2020.

The most important Exhibition of Philatelic Literature of the last six years, ITALIA 2018, will take place in Verona, on 23-25 November 2018 in the frame of Veronafil 2018, the largest philatelic fair in Italy.

Pandelis Leoussis, Music, Dance Theatre in the Hellenic and Cyprus Philately, soft cover, format A4, fully coloured, p. 197 published by the Panhellenic Society of Thematic Philately.

During a perfectly organized Palmares ceremony, leaded by Reinaldo Macedo and Bernard Jimenez, were delivered the main prizes. The Grand Prix D’Honneur was for Luis Alemany from Spain for his “Spain Rates during Isabel II Reign”.

Under the title “A Charter for Change”, Chris King has presented the Bulletin two including important statements looking forward for the future.

From the 6th to the 8th October has been held an additional highlight in the Austrian philately, thanks to the chairman Richard Winkler and the members of the 1st Triestingtaler Stamp Collectors Club Hirtenberg.

Has been launched in Portugalete, Basque Country, the Spanish National Exhibition with international participation. On the 810 frames are displayed many of the best exhibits of the three countries.

The 51-year-old pharmacist from Haldensleben, Alfred Schmidt, was elected by an overwhelming majority during the Annual General Meeting in Lutherstadt Wittenberg.

The 23rd World Olympic Collectors Fair was conducted in Bratislava, Slovakia from 8 - 10 September 2017 with participants from 29 countries around the world. Branislav Delej, President of the SSOSC and a member of the Executive Board of AICO, was the President of the successful Organizing Committee.

At the National Assembly of the Federation of Norwegian Philatelists, has been elected a new Board. The new President is Frank Gilberg, Vice-President, Jon Klemetsen.

The ABPS Exhibitions and International Committee is pleased to announce that it is inviting exhibits of ephemera to be entered at Spring Stampex which will take place at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London N1 from 14th – 17th February 2018.

EstEx'18 - International Philatelic Exhibition organized to celebrate the 100 anniversary of Republic of Estonia, will take place from 13 to 15 July 2018 in Tallinn.

We are receiving from several FEPA members federations nearly simultaneously, the information about this new work of Dr. Thomas Mathà, what promises to be another outstanding research. The book is a thorough study of Italian international transit mail across the Peninsula, covering the five main postal conventions.

Bandung 2017 was an excellent advertisement for the growth in Asian philately over the past thirty years since the second Asian Regional was held in Adelaide in 1986. Congratulations to the organisers, and to the exhibitors. The tables, prepared by Chris King, make interesting reading.

The Israel Philatelic Federation with the support of The Israel Post Company and the Israel Philatelic Service will host the World Stamp Championship ISRAEL 2018 under the FIP Patronage from May 27 to 31, 2018 in Jerusalem.

On the 16th of July finished the International Estonian Philatelic Society's 25th Anniversary's exhibition. On the exhibition there were works presented from 6 foreign countries. The exhibition was being held in the new National Museum of Estonia.

The activity of the FEPA members does not stop. And in the FEPA Board we are looking forward to help. Now it has been again the Swedish Federation that submitted the application for FEPA Recognition of NORDIA 2020, to be celebrated in Malmö on September 4th to 6th 2020.

From the 3rd to the 5th of June 2017 took place the annual thematic international exhibition of the FSPL (Fédération des Sociétés Philatéliques du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg) in Bad Mondorf, organized by Philcolux, with the active participation of the VPhA, the working groups of the German Federation.

Most of the annual Awards were presented at the FEPA Congress. The Medals and the Certificates were handed out at the Congress held in Tampere, Finland on the 28th of May.

Were present 39 out of the 43 National FEPA Members, which means 90,7 % attendance. So, all decisions of the Congress were valid. Also attended the Congress 14 Observers nominated by their respective FEPA National Federations, Associations or Unions. The whole minutes of the Congress.

We are informed that has passed away Michael Adler, FEPA, Vice-President 1992 to 1994, FEPA President from 1994 to 1995 and after 2001 again Vice-President. Great philatelist and great person. Rest in peace.

Many and clever activities are been running for young philatelist within the Exhibition. Also was held with a great success the 1st FEPA Symposium of Youth Philately.

The 2248 exhibition frames of FINLANDIA 2017 has already been mounted by a team of nearly 100 volontiers leaded by Jukka Mäkinen, President of the Organizing Committee. The first Commissioners are already arriving to a perfectly organized Bin Room.

FINLANDIA 2017 has issued another Newsletter including the updated information. The complete Program of the Exhibition is available on the website.

Our kind sponsor the Hungarian Post "Magyar Posta", is launching a series of stamps on Postal History, celebrating the 150th anniversary of becoming independent, starting on May 4th with the release of a new definitive stamp serie under the title of Postal History 2017...

The greatest event of the European Philately of the year is approaching. The wonderful Website of “FINLANDIA 2017” provides the most complete and updated information you may need for: The visitors, full Program, Exhibitors, Commissioners, Jurors, Dealers and more.

Belphila-2017 was held in Minsk from 18 to 21April 2017, dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the first Belarus postage stamp and the 950th anniversary of Minsk City. There were exhibits from 9 different countries.

Jos Wolff, President of the FSPL (Fédération des Sociétés Philatéliques du Grand Duché de Luxembourg) & FIP Honorary President, held a very interesting philatelic presentation at the school of Nocher.

On March 18, 2017 took place the Romanian Philatelic Federation’s Congress, held in Brasov. Was elected the new Board of Directors which consists of:

Costas Chazapis, General Commissioner of the successful NOTOS 2015 amongst many other philatelic activities, has sent us the document “On Gunnar Dahlvig's pessimistic thoughts” referring the recently posted document “Quo Vadis”.

Gunnar Dahlvig, one of the most recognized European philatelists, awarded with the FEPA Medal 2013, presents an interesting document for discussion about the situation of Philately.

We are receiving the 3rd Press Release of MonacoPhil 2017. The beautiful poster to announce MonacoPhil 2017 shows the stamp issued in 1993 by the United States and Monaco to honor Grace Kelly, Princess Grace.

On the 22nd of February we have been informed of the election of Mr. Ivan Van Damme as President of the Belgian Federation for the period 2017-2021. Mr. Eddy Van Vaeck has been elected Honorary President. Congratulations and all best wishes for success.

King Philipp VI and Queen Letizia have accepted the Honorary Presidency of the FEPA International Exhibitions MAXIESPAÑA and JUVENIA 2017 to be held in Aviles, Asturias, from the 10th to the 13th May 2017.

The Postal Stationery Commission, Chaired by Lars Engelbrecht has issued a Newsletter covering interesting information of the second part of the year 2016. The FEPA Representative in the Commission is Michael Smith, UK, while Igor Pirc, Slovenia, has been appointed to the Board by the Chairman.

At the Assembly of the FSPhS, as expected the members of the Board has been re-elected with Hans Schwarz as Président. Two new members has been added to the Board, Rolf Leuthard and Forian Domenjoz.

FINLANDIA 2017 is enhanced by wide program of Seminars, Meetings and Lectures. Eight International Philatelic Seminars will be arranged during the Exhibition in the premises of the official Exhibition Hotel Scandic Tampere City (Hämeenkatu 1, Tampere). Five of them are FIP Approved Seminars, three of them with a status of Qualifying Seminar. Three Seminars have a FEPA Status. Please note that the timetable is preliminary and the times and rooms can still change.

Paolo Guglielminetti has been very active divulgating the concepts of Open Philately in Italy. Now, as President of the national thematic association (CIFT), he asked Marco Occhipinti and Giancarlo Morolli to prepare a booklet on this matter.

On December 3rd , 2016, in Sofia was held the Congress of the Union of Bulgarian Philatelists with the election of a new Board. For President was elected Spas Panchev and Vice-presidents George Detchev and Konstantin Penkov.

The Organizing Committee of FINLANDIA 2017 has informed of the Timetable allocated to the FEPA Congress. It will be held in the Exhibition venue, Tampere Hall, at the Meeting Room "Riffi", on Sunday 28th May, 2017.

All details of this great event are now in http://multilaterale2017.nl .Will have the participation of Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, Slovenia and Switzerland. The theme of the event is 'European Architecture and Cathedrals'.It is organised by the Hertogpost foundation and the KNBF (Koninklijke Nederlandse Bond van Filatelistenverenigingen) in cooperation with the Filatelie foundation, GSE foundation, POST.NL and the NVPH.