04/08/2004 (Agence Europe) - In a comment on the European Constitution published on 30 June in the Lettera diplomatica, the former Italian Permanent Representative to the European Communities Pietro Calamia stated that "from the point of view of content, the Constitutional Treaty represents an extension of the current process with no break from the acquis communautaire". The text does not seem to him to be "any more innovative than the Single Act of 1986, much less the Maastricht Treaty" of 1992. "And it certainly does not constitute a completion of European integration", warns Ambassador Calamia, and it would therefore be "absurd" if in a referendum, the draft were to become a pretext for political confrontations between governments and oppositions because of national political circumstances.