How the myth of George Soros became the new ghost haunting Europe

Thomson Reuters BUCHAREST, Romania — Last winter, in the middle of anti-corruption demonstrations, a television broadcaster accused George Soros —the Hungarian-born, Jewish-American billionaire philanthropist —of paying dogs to protest. The protests in Bucharest, sparked by dead-of-night legislation aimed at decriminalizing corruption, were the largest the country had seen since the fall of communism in 1989. Romania TV —a channel associated with, if not officially owned by, the governme...