François Musseau
French journalist François Musseau is correspondent in Madrid for the French daily Libération. He regularly writes for a number of other French and European media.
Updated: 18 January 2017
By François Musseau
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Spain: Hands off my house!
Libération (Paris) 31 -
Eurozone crisis: The great Portuguese sell-off
Le Temps (Geneva) 71 -
Emigration: Angola, Portugal’s new Eldorado
Libération (Paris)
Publicly denouncing politicians who refuse to revise the law on mortgages, Spaniards lobbying against the soaring number of home evictions have adopted a technique used to put pressure on the Argentine military, nicknamed "the unmasking". 
European leaders are counting on Portugal to set an example of how austerity can succeed when it is applied seriously. Sadly, despite a unprecedented tightening of the screw, Lisbon is still being forced to sell off its “crown jewels” to halt its spiralling debts. 
For three years now, thousands of Portuguese have been fleeing the crisis at home to try their fortune in the erstwhile African colony, whose economy is taking off. This is a replay of the Portuguese exodus back in the 1960s – and harks back to the Age of Discovery.