European stock exchange giant Euronext is hoping for a reform to EU merger rules as it looks to move beyond traditional operations, its CEO has told Euronews. Stéphane Boujnah, who also chairs Euronext’s board, hailed a proposed softening of Brussels antitrust laws, saying that Europe needed to compete with China and the US. “The world is going to be a better place if we have European-based large asset managers, European-based large market infrastructure and European-based large global investment banks,” he said. “For that we need more consolidation and we need a revisited approach of antitrus…