The euro, weighed down by the gloomy outlook for the European economy, with the possibility of a stoppage of Russian gas supplies, plunged on Wednesday below the symbolic threshold of one dollar, which had not been crossed since December 2002 .
As inflation accelerates in the United States and opens the door to an even stricter monetary policy across the Atlantic, the euro traded for 0.9998 dollars around 12:45 GMT, a first since the year of its launch. in circulation.