Norway - [Norge - Noreg]

Norway - [Norge - Noreg]

Capital: Oslo
Languages: Norwegian
Population: 4,812,200
Currency: Norwegian krone - NOK
Internet code: .no
Status: Parliamentary democracy under constitutional monarchy

more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway


Posten Norge



PostEurop member: yes
UPU member: yes
Sepac member: no
Norden member: yes

Europa stamps: since 1960, 1962-1967, 1969, 1973-1992, 2002->

Official site: http://www.posten.no
info: kundeservice@posten.no

"Norway as their other Scandinavian neighbors, Denmark and Sweden, issued their first Europa stamp in 1960."

"During 10 years, from 1993 until 2002, Norway didn't issue any Europa stamps anymore."

"Twice a Norwegian artist made the Europa stamps common design. Arne Holm in 1963 et ten years later in 1973, Leif Frimann Anisdahl made the last common design before the thematic issues."

Monaco

Monaco

Capital: Monaco-Ville
Languages: French
Population: 32,965
Currency: Euro - EUR
Internet code: .mc
Status: Constitutional monarchy and Principality

more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco


La Poste - Monaco



PostEurop member: yes
UPU member: yes
Sepac member: yes
Norden member: no

Europa stamps: since 1962 ->

Official site: http://www.oetp-monaco.com
info: oetp@gouv.mc

"Monaco issued their first Europa stamps in 1962 as a 4 stamps serie but they did not depict the common design."

"Since 1964 Monaco issued Europa stamps with the common design."

"In 2003 Monaco won the Best Europa stamp competition organized by PostEurop

Moldova

Moldova

Capital: Chişinău
Languages: Moldovan (Romanian)
Population: 4,128,047
Currency: Moldovan leu - MDL
Internet code: .md
Status: Parliamentary republic

more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova


Posta Moldovei



PostEurop member: yes
UPU member: yes
Sepac member: no
Norden member: no

Europa stamps: since 1993 ->

Official site: http://www.posta.md
info: timbres@posta.md

"Moldova was one of the first 2 ex-republics of former USSR, with Lithuania, to issue Europa stamps in 1993."

"As Malta, they issued a wrong Europa logo during some years."

Malta

Malta 

Capital: Valletta
Languages: Maltese, English
Population: 410,290
Currency: Euro - EUR
Internet code: .mt
Status: Parliamentary Republic
more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta  

Malta Post

PostEurop member: yes
UPU member: yes
Sepac member: yes
Norden member: no
Europa stamps: since 1971 ->
Official site: https://www.maltaphilately.com/
info: philately@maltapost.com

" Malta has issued their first Europa stamps in 1971 and non-stop since then."

"In 2002, they won the inaugural best Europa stamp contest organized by PostEurop."

"During some years Malta used a wrong Europa logo, as the 2002 Circus stamps."

Madeira

Madeira

Capital: Funchal
Languages: Portuguese
Population: 245,806
Currency: Euro - EUR
Internet code: .pt
Status: Autonomous region of Portugal

more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeira


CTT - Correios



PostEurop member: yes
UPU member: yes
Sepac member: no
Norden member: no

Europa stamps: since 1981 ->

Official site: http://www.ctt.pt/
info: mercadointfil@ctt.pt

"Their Europa stamps issuing programme is closely linked with the one of Portugal."

"As Portugal they issue each year a souvenir sheet."

Macedonia - [Македонија]

Macedonia - [Македонија]

Capital: Skopje
Languages: Macedonian, Albanian
Population: 2,114,550
Currency: Denar - MKD
Internet code: .mk
Status: Parliamentary republic

more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia


Makedonska Posta



PostEurop member: yes
UPU member: yes
Sepac member: no
Norden member: no

Europa stamps: since 1996 ->

Official site: http://www.posta.com.mk/english/filatelija.aspx
info: philately@mp.com.mk

"Macedonia was in 1996 the last of the ex-republics of former Yugoslavia to issue Europa stamps."

"The text of the Macedonian stamps is in Cyrillic."

"In 2005, Macedonia issued a souvenir-sheet to commemorate the 50 years of the Europa stamps depicting four former Europa stamps. One of those stamps shows the 1996 firt Europa stamp of Macedonia with Mother Teresa."

the Netherlands - [Nederland]

the Netherlands - [Nederland]

Capital: Amsterdam
Languages: Dutch
Population: 16,500,156
Currency: Euro - EUR
Internet code: .nl
Status: Parliamentary democracy and Constitutional monarchy

more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands


TNT Post



PostEurop member: yes
UPU member: yes
Sepac member: no
Norden member: no

Europa stamps: since 1956-1993, 2002, 2007-2009

Official site: http://collectclub.tntpost.nl
info: collectclub@tntpost.nl

"The Netherlands are one of the 6 founding members of the Europa stamps collection with Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg and Germany."

"They took part at the Europa stamps issues until 1993. After that year, the Dutch post said not to be interested anymore in Europa issues. In 2002, they issued two stamps on the them "circus" and we had to wait until 2007 to see them issuing Europa stamps again on a regular basis."

"Twice a Dutch artist made the Europa stamps common design: in 1958 André Van der Vossen and in 1961 Theo Kurpershoek."