Migrants bussed back to Athens from border

*Migrants bussed back to Athens from Macedonian border
*West Balkan states meet in Austria on Wednesday

Greece not invited

Greece has begun bringing migrants back to Athens from its northern border with Macedonia.

Restrictions in countries along the mainland route to Western Europe have left huge crowds building up behind a bottleneck at the frontier.

#greece Idomeni border: police ordered mostly Afghan migrants on buses bound for Athens PGiannakouris pic.twitter.com/8darmnTuhA— Petros Giannakouris (PGiannakouris) February 23, 2016

More than 450 migrants, mainly Afghan nationals, were taken back to reception centres in the capital.

Diplomatic protest

Athens has filed a rare diplomatic protest with fellow EU member Austria for excluding Greek officials from a high-level meeting on measures aimed at curbing Europe’s biggest inward migration since the Second World War.

Using unusually language, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias described it as a “unilateral and unfri