Thus one of the leading newspapers in Croatia today quoting Viviane Reding, the European Commission’s top enchilada in jurisprudence, in connection with a report just issued by the European Union about jurisprudence in its member countries. Reportedly, Croatia ended up at the bottom of the list. Among many other problems with jurisprudence in this country, including widespread corruption, long delays in court proceedings are a standard feature. The quote is actually a legal maxim rather than Reding’s wisdom. It goes a long way back, too. At any rate, the article in question immediately reminded me of my misery with Slobodan Vugrinec, the former mayor of Motovun, who took me to court for fabricated libel and insult in 2008 and 2009. My appeal is with the Constitutional Court of Croatia ever since 2011. More important in this connection, commissioner Reding is very well aware of it. I wrote to her in 2012 and 2013 about my misery with Croatian courts (“My Basic Human Rights: A Letter to the European Union Vice President and Commissioner Viviane Reding,” September 17, 2012, and “This Special Day: Another Letter to The European Union Vice President and Commissioner Viviane Reding,” July 1, 2013). What has she done about it, though? Absolutely nothing. Not under her competence, she explained. Justice delayed is justice denied, and the maxim applies not only to Croatia, but also to the vaunted Union.