The answer is Yes ! We indeed find that interacting dark energy can alleviate the current tension on the value of the Hubble constant H _ { 0 } between the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies constraints obtained from the Planck satellite and the recent direct measurements reported by Riess et al . 2016 . The combination of these two datasets points towards an evidence for a non-zero dark matter-dark energy coupling \xi at more than two standard deviations , with \xi = -0.26 _ { -0.12 } ^ { +0.16 } at 95 \% CL . However the H _ { 0 } tension is better solved when the equation of state of the interacting dark energy component is allowed to freely vary , with a phantom-like equation of state w = -1.184 \pm 0.064 ( at 68 \% CL ) , ruling out the pure cosmological constant case , w = -1 , again at more than two standard deviations . When Planck data are combined with external datasets , as BAO , JLA Supernovae Ia luminosity distances , cosmic shear or lensing data , we find perfect consistency with the cosmological constant scenario and no compelling evidence for a dark matter-dark energy coupling .