Today, Mr. David E. Failor, Chief of the United Nations Postal Administration, announced the winner of the 2011 Europa stamp Jury Prize at the first ever PostEurop Europa Jury Prize competition in addition to the online public competition held earlier this year.

This was the first time PostEurop proposed a Jury Prize, in addition to the online public competition. This means that there are two prizes about Europa stamps: one coming from the results of the online competition and one coming from the Jury.

The Jury Composed of:

David E. Failor, President, United States
Marc Taraskoff, Designer, Belgium
Dr Guy Coutant, Philatelist expert, Belgium
Jan Sertons, PostNL, The Netherlands
Jurgen Haepers, www.europa-stamps.blogspot.com,
Switzerland Olaf Neumann, Designer, Germany
Stefan Klein, Designer, Germany

And the winner for the Jury Prize2011 is: Cyprus

The results were announced this morning by Mr. David E. Sailor, Chief of the United Nations Postal Administration and our Jury President at the Brussels Town Hall and the prize itself will be handed out during our Plenary Assembly In Istanbul on the 12th October, just before we announced the winners of the online competition.

Congratulations to Cyprus.