Janusz Korwin-Mikke | JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images MEPs suspended for making Nazi gestures Two members are sanctioned over incidents involving Hitler slogans and a fake moustache.

The European Parliament on Tuesday imposed sanctions on two of its members for behavior the assembly's leaders said promoted Nazi ideology.

Members of the Parliament's Bureau, which includes the president and 14 vice presidents, decided at a meeting Monday night to temporarily suspend the MEPs, Poland's Janusz Korwin-Mikke and Italy's MEP Gianluca Buonanno, for separate incidents in which each made Nazi gestures during parliamentary debates.

The two members will be barred “from participating in all activities of Parliament's official bodies for ten consecutive days,” and will have to pay a fine of €3,060 (“equal to ten daily subsistence allowances”), according to a statement from the assembly.

Buonanno, a member of Italy's Northern League party and the Europe of Nations and Freedom group, was disciplined for two incidents during the Parliament's plenary session earlier this month. On October 7, the Parliament leaders said, Buonanno wore a T-shirt bearing an image of German Chancellor Angela Merkel "combined with parts of an image of Adolf Hitler."

The next day, the statement said, during a debate with Merkel and French President François Hollande, Buonanno "sported a fake moustache evocative of Adolf Hitler and made a Nazi salute."

Buonanno is known for such stunts in parliamentary sessions. During European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's State of the Union speech in early September, Buonanno approached the podium wearing a Merkel mask.

Korwin-Mikke, who is not a member of any of the Parliament's party groups, was suspended for comments he made during the July plenary session in which he "raised his arm in a Nazi salute and said 'This time it is ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Ticket,' in protest against an EU -wide transport ticket," the statement said. "Also, during a debate on 8 September, he referred to migrants as 'human garbage.'"

The suspensions entered into force immediately, the statement said, and will last until November 11. “In both cases these are not the first such incidents,” the press release said.

"Criticizing Germany or Merkel in the European Parliament seems to be lèse majesté," Buonanno said in response to the decision. "Satire doesn't exist, these people don't know what satire is. There is an economic and political nazism."

Korwin-Mikke could not be reached for comment.

A Parliament official said Monday night's Bureau meeting included several speeches on the incidents and “all of them in support of the sanctions.”

This article was updated to clarify that Buonanno responded verbally to the decision, not in an email statement.