premise: Dexia bank, a big shareholder in pan-European stock market operator Euronext, will vote against a merger between the operator and the New York Stock Exchange, chief executive Axel Miller said on Tuesday.
  He told the French financial newspaper Les Echos: "We will vote against the trans-Atlantic merger project."
  This was because the bank felt that the NYSE would eventually dominate the new entity and because the merger ran counter to Euronext's original vision of a pan-European stock market.
  "It would be sort of like the birth of America Next," he added.
  Euronext groups the stock markets in Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Lisbon, and the Liffe financial futures market in London, and its shareholders are to vote Tuesday on the planned merger with the NYSE.
   What are shareholders doing in regards to the planned merger with NYSE?
hypothesis: vote against