lightning fast French Presidency transition

Unlike the US where the transition from one to the next President is a three month dragged out affair based upon the slow travel times of nearly 250 years ago, the French transition is lightning fast. Hollande was elected on Sunday May 6, and will be sworn in on May 14, only one week of transition, for Sarkozy to move out of the Presidential palace in Paris, and for Hollande to appoint his cabinet ministers etc. This would never happen in the US, we go through vetting and floating names, and background checks, and congressional confirmation, and so on. We have people that the President appointed who still have not been confirmed for judgeships and other critical jobs. So, maybe another lesson we can learn from the EU countries, that the people's business comes first?