
Turkey, Spain and Finland, winners at the World Competition for the three Best Maximum Cards 2018 (FIP Commission for Maximaphily)
Jenny Benfield, President and Pascal Bandry, Bureau Member of the FIP Commission, are kindly sending us the Press Release of the contest. 30 countries took part in the competition. The result was the following: 1st Turkey (54). 2nd Spain (48). 3rd Finland (39)...

Granted the FEPA Recognition to the Continental Exhibition 90th Anniversary of The Philatelic Society of Egypt
The FEPA Board unanimously agreed in granting the FEPA Recognition to the “Continental Stamp Exhibition 90th Anniversary of The Philatelic Society of Egypt”. It will be celebrated from September 9th to 15th 2019 in Cairo, Egypt, with the participation of 6 Arab countries and the Egypt Study Circle, London. The RPSL will symbolically be celebrating its 150th Anniversary with one their member attending.

Four more FIP Jurors from FEPA Members
Congratulations to Adriano Bergamini (Switzerland), Ralph Ebner (Germany), Simon Richards (United Kingdom) and Arie Zonjee (Netherlands) who are now accredited as FIP Jurors once successfully served as Jury Apprentices at the FIP World Exhibition CHINA 2019

New issue of the “Trait d’Union”, the newsletter of the European Academy of Philately
Peter Suhadolc, President of the Slovenian Philatelic Association and Editor of the “Trait d’Union”, has kindly sent us its new issue. It is the newsletter of the European Academy of Philately, chaired by Jean Voruz. Over its very interesting 16 pages, it shows their main events of the first part of 2019 and those that will be held in the next months.

EFIRO 2019, National Romanian with International Participation: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Israel, Republic of Moldova, Serbia and Hungary, invited countries
EFIRO 2019 will take place at the Museum of Romanian Records, Bucharest, from the 19th to the 21st September 2019. It is still time for the exhibits in the "Literature" class that must be sent in a single copy until August 20, 2019. There are no participation fees for any of the exhibition classes.

Elections at the Cyprus Philatelic Society: Akis Christou, new President
The Cyprus Philatelic Society has elected a new Board formed by 12 members as follows: Akis Christou, President; Demetris Charatsis, Vice-President; Costas Athanasiou, Secretary General,

Symposyum on Postal History in Spain
Seville hosted in July an important Symposyum on Postal History, organized by the General Archive of the Indies with the collaboration of the Royal Hispanic Academy of Philately and Postal History , the Spanish Post “Correos” and the Spanish Postal and Telegraphic Museum. It consisted in 11 Conferences and Presentations by experts researchers in the Postal History field

PHILA-FRANCE 2019 and 92nd Congress of the FFAP
The French National Exhibition was of high level: 180 exhibits in the 15 competition classes which were awarded 23 Gold medals, 40 Grand Vermeil medals and 47 Vermeil. Was also held the 92nd Congress of the FFAP with the participation of 600 Delegates representing the nearly 400 Philatelic Societies and Clubs members of the French Federation.

Julius Cacka, elected new President of the Czech Federation
The Czech Philatelic Federation has elected as new President Mr. Julius Cacka. He will be at this position till the elections in December 2020. He is simultaneously Secretary and President. We wish him every success

ELECTIONS AT THE FEPA BOARD
The next FEPA Congress shall elect the President, the Secretary General and one Director. According to the Statutes, the President, Jose Ramon Moreno and the Secretary General, Bojan Bračič have finished their terms of service to FEPA and can not be candidates for reelection. FEPA member Federations, Associations or Unions can send their candidacies until the 29th of August.