Some 25,000 refugees and migrants are estimated to be stuck in Greece, a major humanitarian challenge for a country recovering from an economic and debt crisis that almost knocked it out of the euro zone.
"I want to appeal to all potential illegal economic migrants wherever you are from: Do not come to Europe".
He is scheduled to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday.
"We are waiting for the numbers of migrants that can be received in the destination countries in Western Europe, and this is going to determine the daily quotas of migrants being allowed to enter Macedonian territory".
"It is for Turkey to decide how best to achieve such a reduction", Tusk said after meeting Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, floating the idea of a "fast and large scale mechanism" to ship back irregular migrants from Greece. But the apparent show of European solidarity masks growing criticism of countries that have capped the number of migrants they are willing to let in. This year alone, some 124,000 people have taken the Mediterranean route to Greece. Last year, a million landed on Europe's shores.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said his government was mulling the possibility of taking back asylum seekers from countries other than Syria.
The plan calls for the end of temporary border controls and the restoration by the end of 2016 of full free travel across the 26-country Schengen zone.
"We will take stock of the situation on May 12". Denmark on Thursday renewed its checks for another month.
Have EU promises been kept?
The European Commission is setting November as "the target date for bringing to an end the exceptional safeguard measures".
Cochetel said that only 7,500 refugees were resettled from Turkey past year, including 1,100 Syrians.
That is also why I will immediately travel to Turkey from here.
"They make our life miserable", said Mohammad Abdali from Raqa, Syria.
"We will not abandon Greece", Tusk stressed in a joint press conference after a meeting with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, adding unilateral initiatives by European countries were undermining the Union's spirit of cooperation to resolve problems.
Sebastian Kurz told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung in an interview that "those who manage to arrive in Greece should not be allowed to continue on their journey".
"We can not imprison people, that would contravene global agreements".
Macedonia briefly opened the border, letting another 320 through before resealing it, Greek police said.
European Council President Donald Tusk is warning prospective economic migrants to not even think of setting off toward Europe.
The plan, a draft of which has been seen by AFP, includes quickly creating an European Union coast guard system and strengthening Greece's external border, the main point of entry for refugees and migrants to Europe.
"It is all for nothing", he said.
Dimitris Avromopoulos, the European Commissioner for Migration, said other states needed to support Greece.
On Thursday, Tusk also visited Turkey, hoping it could finally be persuaded to do more to help.
Hundreds held a sit-in protest on the rail tracks near the Idomeni border crossing on Thursday.
Journalist Ann Cahill told Breakfast the country's migrants have been arriving to - like Greece - are just not able to cope with the numbers landing: "That is not happening because they just don't want that number of people so they have just been waving them on".
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Source: EU's Tusk Tells Migrants to Stop Coming to Europe
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