“…It thus follows that an increasing EU interparliamentary networking activity (Crum and Fossum, 2009; Lupo and Fasone, 2016) would have to be organized around individual parliamentarians who are experts in their respective policy areas. Such professionalization of parliamentarians through, for instance long‐term committee membership, is ultimately the norm at the national level, including in the foreign and security policy areas (Deschaux‐Dutard, 2017; Rozenberg et al ., 2015).…”