02/05/2016 (Agence Europe) - Unaccompanied minors. In 2015, 88 300 asylum seekers applying for international protection in the member states of the European Union (EU) were considered to be unaccompanied minors. While their number always stood between 11 000 and 13 000 in the EU over the period 2008-2013, it almost doubled in 2014 to reach slightly more than 23 000 persons, then nearly quadrupled in 2015. In 2015, a substantial majority of unaccompanied minors were males (91%) and over half...