European Union President Donald Tusk on Thursday urged economic migrants not to come to Europe. “I want to appeal to all potential illegal economic migrants wherever you are from: Do not come to Europe. Do not believe the smugglers. Do not risk your lives and your money. It is all for nothing,” he said at a press conference in Athens, after holding talks on the refugee crisis with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

Tusk also said that Greece, or any other country in Europe, will not serve as a transit country anymore as the Schengen rules will be implemented again. “Excluding Greece from Schengen is neither an end nor a means in this crisis,” he said. Tusk is in the Greek capital as part of his regional tour to review the crisis. He will meet Turkey Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Ankara later on Thursday, to urge the country to play a more intensive role in containing the number of migrants entering Europe via Greece, AFP reported.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had said on Tuesday that more than 131,000 migrants and refugees reached Europe via the Mediterranean Sea in the first two months of this year, which is more than the total number in the first five months of 2015. “Europe is on the cusp of a largely self-induced humanitarian crisis,” the refugee agency had said, accusing EU member states of fuelling the chaos and suffering by resorting to “inconsistent practices” in response to the situation.