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09.05.2000
First Day Cover:
For the first time in the history of PostEurop, a single design will be used for an issue on the common date on 9 May 2000 throughout Europe. This event shows the PostEurop involvement in the construction of close cultural bonds between it's members, and it's will to pursue the harmonisation of major European and worldwide postal policies. The design was selected by the PostEurop 42 member states during the PostEurop Malta Plenary Assembly meeting in 1997, at which all members were able to present a design to the plenary. The graphical display unit presented by La Poste (France), whose designer is Mr. Jean Paul COUSIN, was selected following a contest organised between the PostEurop Members. During the last day of the Plenary Assembly meeting in Monaco in 1998, Mr Eamonn A. Ryan, at that time Chairman of the PostEurop Management Board, and H.E. Jean Pastorelli, Minister Plenipotentiary and Permanent Delegate to the International Organisations of the Principality of Monaco handed out the prize awarded to the author of the design selected to appear on the EUROPA Stamp issued on the 9th of May 2000. The theme of these stamps features children - tomorrow's generation - playing with the stars representing the construction of the European Union. The Artist Bon in Marmande on the 28th June 1942, Jean Paul Cousin attended school at Compeigne in Oise, and later attended the National School of Art in Paris, where he specialised in graphic arts. Jean Paul Cousin was for some time assistant to different Directors of Art in publicity, and also formed part of a group of creators. Cousin also worked on visual identity, and became an independent graphic artist in 1983. Jean Paul Cousin designed his first stamps in 1987. These included the Century Image of the Pasteur Institute, and also the International Telecommunications Union in 1989, the Europa set and the National School of Administration in 1995, the UNESCO set in 1996, and the Mitterand set in 1997.
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