 Complete the following phrase:  Negotiations to modify EU institutions began in 2001, resulting first in the proposed Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, which would have repealed the existing European treaties and replaced them with a constitution. Although ratified by a majority of member states, this was abandoned after being rejected by 55 of French voters on 29 May 2005 and then by 61 of Dutch voters on 1 June 2005. After a period of reflection, member states agreed instead to maintain the existing treaties and amend them, to bring into law a number of the reforms that had been envisaged in the abandoned constitution. An amending reform treaty was drawn up and signed in Lisbon in 2007. It was originally intended to have been ratified by all member states by the end of 2008. This timetable failed, primarily due to the 