From 2019 to 2022, Bruins Slot was a member of the provincial executive of Utrecht, in which she was in charge of nature, agriculture, soil and water, sport and governance.[4]
In February 2024, she stated that Israel's planned assault on Rafah was "unjustifiable".[5]
In April 2024 the European Commission co-hosted a conference on "restoring justice for Ukraine" in The Hague. Significant contributors were Slot as the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba and the Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders.[6]
^"Utrechtse gedeputeerde Hanke Bruins Slot voorgedragen als nieuwe minister van Binnenlandse Zaken", Algemeen Dagblad (in Dutch), 2 January 2022.
^Stephanie van den Berg (4 September 2023), Dutch Interior Minister Bruins Slot set for foreign ministry Reuters.
^Stephanie van den Berg (4 September 2023), Dutch Interior Minister Bruins Slot set for foreign ministry Reuters.
^Gedeputeerde Hanke Bruins Slot (CDA) Archived 11 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine, provincie-utrecht.nl (in Dutch).
^"Israeli offensive in Rafah would be 'unjustifiable': Dutch minister". Al Jazeera. 10 February 2024. Archived from the original on 10 February 2024.
^"Commission co-hosts international conference on restoring justice for Ukraine in The Hague - European Commission". neighbourhood-enlargement.ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
^"NATO chief reiterates Ukraine's right to strike 'legitimate military targets' inside Russia". Anadolu Agency. 31 May 2024.
^"Hanke Bruins Slot nieuwe minister BZK". Het Nederlands Genootschap van Burgemeesters (in Dutch). Retrieved 25 February 2024.
^"Hanke Bruins Slot". CDA (in Dutch). Retrieved 25 February 2024.
^"Real Decreto 377/2024, de 9 de abril, por el que se concede la Gran Cruz de la Orden del Mérito Civil a las personalidades neerlandesas que se citan" [Royal Decree 377/2024, of April 9, by which the Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit is awarded to the Dutch personalities mentioned.] (in Spanish). 9 April 2024.