Visit Belgium, Europa 2012 and new logo...

Europa-CEPT stamps are issued every year by European Postal Administrations under the aegis of PostEuro and which have Europe as a common theme.
The six countries who signed the "Treaty of Rome" on the 25th of March 1957 (Belgium, Holland, Luxemburg, Germany, France & Italy) were also the first countries who issued the first EUROPA stamps on the 15th September 1956.
The frist design of the common stamp was created by the Frenchmen Daniel Gonzague and was a tower formed by the 6 letters of the Latin word EUROPA.  

On the 2011 Europa stamps You'll see a new logo. A small square and black & white element, symbolic reminder of the mailbox, has been added in front of the word Europa.

                                                                    logo used with the permission of PostEurop

As it is impossible to register a plain text-logo, a design element had to ba added to the text "Europa". PostEurop will with this new logo be able to have a better comtrol on missure and non official Europa stamps issues.
This new logo can already be seen on the 2010 Europa stamp issue of Switzerland. The Swiss post has the copyright rights on the Europa logo. In 2011 this logo were featured on each official Europa stamp issue.
The theme of Europa this year is visits.......    
Europa Themes for the coming year :      
2013 : Postal vehicles
2014 : Musical instruments