Question: Are Cane Corso and Huntaway both European dog breeds?

Context articles: Lottatore Brindisino
Vulnerable Native Breeds
Huntaway
Conformation (dog)
Tugou
Klára Kučerová
Cane Corso
Cane da presa
Breed group (dog)
Dog breed

The Lottatore Brindisino is a breed of dog used for dog fighting originating in Brindisi, Italy.
 The dog was created by selective breeding the Cane Corso, Rottweiler and Pit bull.
Vulnerable Native Breeds are a group of dog breeds originating in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and identified by The Kennel Club (KC) as having annual registration numbers of 300 puppies or fewer.
 The need for such a list was first identified in June 2003, with research conducted by the KC to identify the extent of the vulnerability and viability of each breed.
 It was a joint project, with the KC working with the British and Irish Native Breeds Trust, later to be known simply as the Native Dog Breeds Trust.
 The breeds on the list have been promoted at events such as Discover Dogs and Crufts, and by asking that owners of these breeds mate their dogs rather than having them spayed.
The Huntaway (also known as a New Zealand Huntaway) is a large, strongly built breed of dog used for general sheep herding tasks in New Zealand, where they originate.
 They were bred to use their loud, deep bark to drive sheep.
Conformation in dogs refers solely to the externally visible details of a dog's structure and appearance, as defined in detail by each dog breed's written breed standard.
 A dog that "conforms" to most of the items of description in its individual breed standard is said to have "good conformation".
 Unlike equine conformation, there are no fixed rules for dog conformation, as dogs are the most variable in appearance of any animals ("Phenotypic variation among dog breeds, whether it be in size, shape, or behavior, is greater than for any other animal").
 Instead, conformation in dogs is based on the dog type from which the breed developed, along with many details that have been added to the breed standard for purposes of differentiation from other breeds, for working reasons, or for enhancing the beauty of the animals from the viewpoint of the fanciers who wrote the breed standards.
Tugou (土狗, pinyin: "tǔ gǒu"), literally means Native Dog in Mandarin Chinese, is the general name for several dog breeds originated from China and still abundantly exists across the country today.
 Tugou includes the most popular Chinese dog breed - the Chinese Field Dog (, pinyin: "zhōng huá tián yuán quǎn"), Chinese Chongqing Dog, Xiasi Dog, and several other native dog breeds distributed across China.
 They are roughly 45–50 cm tall at the shoulder.
Klára Kučerová (a pseudonym for Lucie Hušková) is a Czech writer, interpreter and translator, born on 14 September, 1972, in Pardubice and is living in Italy.
 She worked as a forensic interpreter and a conference interpreter; she is specialized in odontology.
 Hušková began her literary work with publications of some language manuals, then wrote three novels in Italian.
 One of them, "Imperfette Sintonie" ["Imperfect Harmonies"], based on a famous football case, was published by Bonfirraro.
 Her latest book, "Ike", is written in Czech.
 It is a humorous memoir about her disastrous life in Italy, as seen through the eyes of a cane corso (an Italian breed of large dog).
 It was immediately bought by a Czech Publisher (Prah) and will be published in April, 2017, in Prague.
The Cane Corso (pronounced kah-nay kor-so ] ) from Italian "cane" (dog) and "corso"from the Latin "Cohors" meaning "Protector", also known as the Italian Mastiff, is a large Italian breed of dog, for years valued highly in Italy as a companion, guard dog, and hunter.
The Cane da Presa Meridionale (Italian for "Southern Catching Dog") is the old, "functional" working variant of the Neapolitan Mastiff.
 Before 1946 there was no distinction between Neapolitan Mastiff, Cane da Presa and Cane Corso, these were simply three different names for the same dog.
 The modern Neapolitan Mastiff is unlike the original, a dog created by dog shows. Fans of the original Mastino have started an organisation which is trying to gather the remaining specimens which would fit the 1946 standard of the Neapolitan Mastiff.
A breed group is a categorization of related breeds of animal by an overseer organization, used to organize the showing of animals.
 In dogs, kennel clubs define the "Breed Groups" and decide which dog breeds are to be included in each breed group.
 The Fédération Cynologique Internationale breed groups are used to organize dogs for international competition.
 Breed groups often have the names of, and are loosely based on, ancestral dog types of modern dog breeds.
Dog breeds are dogs that have relatively uniform physical characteristics developed under controlled conditions by humans, with breeding animals selected for phenotypic traits such as size, coat color, structure, and behavior.
 The Fédération Cynologique Internationale recognizes over 400 pure dog breeds.